Strings in c language with examples | Reading and displaying a string variable in C | Initialization of a string variable in C

String is group of one or more characters within double quotes (“).

Example:  “Lovejot” , “2019” , “Rs4000”,  “[email protected]” 

1. What is a String variable in C ?

An array of char type is known as a string variable.

Example: char name[20];

In this example, sname is a string variable which can contain maximum 19 characters.

2. Initialization of a string variable in C

There are two ways to initialize a string varible:

a. The first way to initialize a string variable is

char name[]={‘S’,’u’,’m’,’i’,’t’};

Above examples contains string variable name having value “Sumit”.

b. The second way to initialize a string variable is

char name[]=”Sumit”;

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[]="Sumit"; //char studentname1[]={'S','u','m','i','t'};
printf("\nname=%s",name);
return(0);
}

name=Amita

3. Reading and displaying a string variable in C 

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

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char sname[30];
printf(“Enter name=”);
gets(sname);
printf("\nsname=%s",sname);
return(0);
}