C Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Defining Strings Within a Program

As you probably noticed when you read Listing 11.1, there are many ways to define a string. The principal ways are using string constants, using char arrays, using char pointers, and using arrays of character strings. A program should make sure there is a place to store a string, and we will cover that topic, too.

Character String Constants (String Literals)

A string constant, also termed a string literal, is anything enclosed in double quotation marks. The enclosed characters, plus a terminating \0 character automatically provided by the compiler, are stored in memory as a character string. The program uses several such character string constants, most often as arguments for the printf() and puts() functions. ...