More on Strings

• Because strings are arrays, and because array names are basically pointers, the assignment and comparison operations manipulate pointers, and not the strings themselves.

• char s[ ]= “hello”;
  
  char t[ ]= s; /* s and t point to same place*/
  s[1]= ‘?’;
  /* s and t are now “h?llo” */

• Standard library strlib.h contains routines to copy string values, catenate them, compare them, etc.

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