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Character Array

The document discusses character arrays and strings in programming, detailing their declaration, initialization methods, and dynamic input. It also introduces string manipulation functions from the 'string.h' library, such as strcmp, strcpy, strlen, and strcat, along with examples of their usage. The document provides examples of string comparisons and length calculations.

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Character Array

The document discusses character arrays and strings in programming, detailing their declaration, initialization methods, and dynamic input. It also introduces string manipulation functions from the 'string.h' library, such as strcmp, strcpy, strlen, and strcat, along with examples of their usage. The document provides examples of string comparisons and length calculations.

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Character Array/ String

It is a sequence of characters terminated by a special symbol ‘\n’


Declaration | char str[8];
Initialization |

option 1( static)- char str[9]= {‘e’, ‘l’, ‘e’ , ‘p’, ‘h’, ‘a’, ‘n’ ,
‘t’,‘\0’ };
-char str[]= {‘t’, ‘r’, ‘e’, ‘e’, ‘\0’,};

option 2(static)- char str[9]= “elephant”;


char str[]= “elephant”;
option 3(Dynamic)- char w[100];
printf(“ \n Enter a string:\n”);
gets(w);
OR
Scanf(“%s”, w)

Accessing
Some string manipulation functions contained in the library “string.h”
1) Strcmp – used for compairing strings
2) Strcpy- used for copying strings
3) Strlen- used for obtaining lengths of strings
4) Strcat- used for concatenating(joining) 2 strings
Int strlen ( string )
Example :
char w[100];
w[0]= ‘a’;
w[1]= ‘t’;
w[2]= ‘\0’;
printf(“%d”, strlen(w));

ex: str1= “bomb” str2=”cat”


strcmp(“bomb”, “cat”); = -1

str1=”cat” str2=”bomb”
strcmo(“cat”, “bomb”); = 1

str1=”bomb” str2=”bomd”
strcmp(“bomb”, “bomd”); = -1

str1=”bomb” str2=”bom” = 1
str1=”b” str2=”B” =1

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