malaram

 Profile Answers by malaram 

• Feb 6th, 2007

 

I think there is nothing difference b/w both because string is a collection of character or we can say it is a character array which ends at NULL.

Amit_21

 Profile Answers by Amit_21 

• Jan 31st, 2008

 

IN C there is no big diffrence Between string and character array
 
 but string must be NULL terminated...... if u ll forget to insert the '' at the END it will automatically insert the NULL chracter .take a example

int i;
char arr[5]={'a','s','d','z','x'};  \no error because not a string..it is collection of chracter
char arr1[5]="asdzx";   //error overflow because last chracter must be
char arr2[6]="asdzx";//will work
for (i=0;i<5;printf("n%d----%cn",i,arr[i]),i++);

printf("nstringn ");
printf("nstring-----is ----%sn",arr1);


hi,guys..this is amit what i feel abto arrayand string i already written ..if u have any other views plz send me at amitsrms21@gmail.com

vanavill

 Profile Answers by vanavill 

• Feb 8th, 2008

 

 Hai,
    string is a collection of charecter,it must be ended with null.
     charecter array is aset of elements if you didn't give a space for null,it shows error.
    
   if any correction or further infn plz send it to me.

regrads,
bala.

kushal

• Dec 26th, 2011

 

char arr2[6]="asdzx";//will work


this instruction never work....
ok

udaykiran

• Feb 8th, 2012

 

the major difference between the char array and the string is that the array will not end with the null....where as string ends with the null.............

vijay

• Sep 6th, 2016

 

A major difference is: string will have static storage duration, whereas as a character array will not, unless it is explicitly specified by using the static keyword.

jbode

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• Sep 16th, 2016

 

In C, a *string* is a sequence of character values followed by a zero-valued terminator (byte or byte sequence). Strings are *stored* as arrays of char, but not all arrays of char contain strings - if that null terminator isnt there, then the array does not contain a string.
A *string literal* like "Hello" is also stored as an array of char such that it is allocated when the program starts and is available over the lifetime of the program. Attempting to modify the contents of a string literal invokes undefined behavior, so you cant use a string literal (or a pointer variable that points to the beginning of a string literal) as an argument to a function that tries to modify the string (strcpy, strcat, strtok, etc.).

Ramakrishna Deshpande

• Nov 14th, 2016

 

We can change the base address of String where as we cannot modify the address of an Array.
If string is like, char * str = "String" then it cant be modified as it will to RO memory and such operation will result in Segmentation fault, if it is char str[] = "String"; then we can modify this.

vamsi

• Nov 29th, 2016

 

A character array is simply an array of characters
A sting is data structure that uses an array of character.

Ganesh kakade

• Sep 3rd, 2017

 

For accessing the element of character array, we use indexing of array, but in sting we use following syntax as
string_name.charat(index)

Dnyaneshwar

• Sep 6th, 2017

 

Collection of more than one character is known as character array and character array also known string.
There is no data type in like string....

Shubhay Raj Dubey

• Jan 16th, 2018

 

A string must be null terminated whereas character array need not. Hence string requires one bit more space as compared to character arrays