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Strings: Eric Mccreath

Strings in C are arrays of characters that are terminated with a NULL or 0 character. The string library provides functions like strcpy() to copy strings and strlen() to determine the length of a string by searching for the NULL terminator. Exercises are provided to write functions to check if a string is a palindrome by reversing it and to count the number of words in a string.

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Strings: Eric Mccreath

Strings in C are arrays of characters that are terminated with a NULL or 0 character. The string library provides functions like strcpy() to copy strings and strlen() to determine the length of a string by searching for the NULL terminator. Exercises are provided to write functions to check if a string is a palindrome by reversing it and to count the number of words in a string.

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Strings

Eric McCreath
Strings
Strings are just arrays of characters.
char str[30];

You can initialize strings:


char name[] = "Eric";

You can also use these string literals as inputs to parameters for
functions:
if (strcmp("Bill",name) == 0) { ...

However you can NOT use assignment for copying strings:


str = "Fred"; // THIS WILL NOT WORK

Rather you should use the string library:


#include<string.h>
....
strcpy(str,"Fred");

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Length
The end of a string is marked by a NULL or 0 character. Note that
generally within computing "null" is just another way of saying 0.
The length of a string is determined by searching through the string
until the zero is found. When allocating strings (which are just
arrays) one should allow space for this NULL .
The string library has a function you can use to determine the
length of string.
length = strlen(mystring);

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Exersizes
Write a function that determines if a string is a palindrome (the
string remains the same when reversed).
Write a function that counts the number of words in a string.

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