String in C language is the array of characters terminated by a null character ‘\0’. String is similar to the array and its data type is specific to char.

Declaration of Strings

Declaring a string is similar to declaring a one-dimensional array but the data type must be char.

Syntax for declaration of strings

char string_name[ length ];

Here string_name is the name of the string and length is the size of the string including null character.

Example

char myString[10];

Initialization of strings

Initialization of a string is also similar to initializing an array.

Syntax for initializing a string

There are three different ways through which we can initialize a string.

Method 1:

char name[11] = {'O', 'j', 'h', 'a', 'B', 'i', 'k', 'a', 's', 'h', '\0'};

Method 2:

char name[] = {'O', 'j', 'h', 'a', 'B', 'i', 'k', 'a', 's', 'h', '\0'};

Method 3:

char name[11] = "OjhaBikash";

Method 4:

char name[] = "OjhaBikash";

Program to print a string

//A program to print a string
#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
    char name[] = "OjhaBikash";

    printf("%s\n",name);
    return 0;
}

Output

OjhaBikash