Initializing String / Charater Array in C Programming

Ways of Initializing String

Way 1 :Unsized Array and Character

• Unsized Array : Array Length is not specified
• Array length is Automatically calculated by Compiler
• Individual Characters are written inside pair of braces with comma as seperator
• Note : NULL Character should be written

char name [] = {'P','R','I','T','E','S','H','\0'};

Way 2 : Directly initialize String Variable

• Assign String to variable of type Character Array
• No need to write NULL(‘\0′) character at end
• NULL Character is appended Automatically

char name [ ] = "PRITESH";

Way 3 : Character Pointer Variable

• Declare Character variable of pointer type so that it can hold the base address of “String”
• Base address means address of first array element i.e (address of name[0] )
• NULL Character is appended Automatically

char *name = "PRITESH";

Related Topic : 

• What is Difference Between char *a[] and char a[] ?

Incoming search terms:

• unsized string array declaration in java (2)
• C program string in array (1)
• c programming initializing array of char [] (1)
• how to initialize string variable in c# (1)