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String in C Programming Language

String in C Programming Language

In this post, We will learn about string in C programming language.

Introduction

A string in C is merely an array of characters. The length of a string is determined by a terminating null character: '\0'. So, a string with the contents, say, "abc" has four characters: 'a', 'b', 'c', and the terminating null character.

Initialize String in C

Suppose you want to store Rozgardesh in String str you can do using one of below way
 1. char str[] = "RozgarDesh";  
 2. char str[50] = "RozgarDesh";  
 3. char str[] = {'R','o','z','g','a','r','d','e','s','h','\0'};  
 4. char str[11] = {'R','o','z','g','a','r','d','e','s','h','\0'};

Display String

Here is an example to display the value of a string variable on the terminal.
 #include<stdio.h>  
 int main()  
 {    
   // declare and initialize string  
   char str[] = "Rozgardesh";  
   // print string  
   printf("%s",str);  
   return 0;  
 }

String as User Input

Here is an example to take a string input from the user
  // C program to read strings   
  #include<stdio.h>   
  int main()   
  {    
   // declaring string   
   char str[50];   
   // reading string   
   scanf("%s",str);   
   // print string   
   printf("%s",str);   
   return 0;   
  }

The more commonly-used string functions

The nine most commonly used functions in the string library are:
  • strcat - concatenate two strings
  • strchr - string scanning operation
  • strcmp - compare two strings
  • strcpy - copy a string
  • strlen - get string length
  • strncat - concatenate one string with part of another
  • strncmp - compare parts of two strings
  • strncpy - copy part of a string
  • strrchr - string scanning operation
All these functions come under <string.h> library. So in order to use these function, you have to include <string.h> header file in your source code. We will discuss examples of these function in another post.

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