Strings in c language with examples

String is defined as collection of multiple characters within inverted commas(“).

Example: “Lovejot” , “2019”

1. String variable

Character type array is known as string variable.

Example: char sname[20];

2. Initialization of a string variable

We can intialize string variable as

char var[Size]={List of characters};

Example:

char name[6]={‘r’,’o’,’h’,’i’,’t’};

char var[Size]=”Value”;

Example

char name[6]=”rohit”;

Program

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[]=”Rohit”;
printf(“%s”,studentname);
return(0);
}

Output

Rohit

3. Reading and displaying a string variable

We can read and display a string variable just as we read a normal variable of C Language.

Program

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[20];
printf(“Enter your name =”);
gets(name);
printf(“\nname=%s”,name);
return(0);
}

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