Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

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A C string is just a bunch of characters right next to each other in memory. The string ends when the character 0x00 is encountered.

Figure 39.1  The word “Love” as a C string

Functions that take C strings expect the address of the string’s first character. strlen(), for example, will count the number of characters in a string. Try building a string and using strlen() to count the letters:

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