6. Can C Store Words?

In Character Arrays

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Although C doesn’t have string variables, there is a way to store string data. This chapter explains how. You already know that string data must be enclosed in quotation marks. Even a single character enclosed in quotation marks is a string. You also know how to print strings with printf().

The only task left is to see how to use a special type of character variable to hold string data so that your program can input, process, and output that string data.

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