Thread: Strings And Arrays

An array is a sequence of items with the same type, such as int or char. A string is a sequence of chars that always end with the '\0' character. A C string is an array of those chars where the last element in the array is the nul. The C++ string class is god's gift to programmers, C strings have a set length and it takes some tweaking to change the length if you want to, but the C++ String class can dynamically change it's length with fair ease

Array:
char a[] = {'a','b','c','d'};

C String:
char a[] = {'a','b','c','d','\0'};
or the short form which is the same
char a[] = "abcd";

C++ String:
string a = "abcd";

I can explain more with a better idea of what you don't understand.

-Prelude