String functions in c with examples

A String in C programming is a sequence of characters terminated with a null character ‘\0’. The C String is stored as an array of characters. The difference between a character array and a C string is that the string in C is terminated with a unique character ‘\0’.

C String Declaration Syntax

Declaring a string in C is as simple as declaring a one-dimensional array.

Below is the basic syntax for declaring a string.

In the above syntax string_name is any name given to the string variable and size is used to define the length of the string, i.e the number of characters strings will store.

String functions in c

There is an extra terminating character which is the Null character (‘\0’) used to indicate the termination of a string that differs strings from normal character arrays.

C String Initialization

A string in C can be initialized in different ways.

We will explain this with the help of an example. Below are the examples to declare a string with the name str and initialize it with “GeeksforGeeks&

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