Chapter 8. C Characters and Strings

 

The chief defect of Henry King

Was chewing little bits of string.

 
 --Hilaire Belloc
 

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.

 
 --William Strunk, Jr.
 

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

 
 --Blaise Pascal
 

The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

 
 --Mark Twain
 

Mum’s the word.

 
 --Miguel de Cervantes
<feature><title>Objectives</title>

In this chapter, you will learn:

<objective>

To use the functions of the character-handling library (ctype).

</objective>
<objective>

To use the string-conversion ...

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