strings?

[NiVaG]

whats the point of strings?what do they do?

[Roule]

First question on this board I could help answer, have a read of this article:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson9.html

[major_small]

the best answer is a simple one: they make things easier.

instead of having to watch out for running off the end of the array and remembering to put the '/0' at the end of everything, it will be done for you. it also allows for sorting/searching algorithms and helps further standardize things.

alot of the things that take dozens of lines of code to do with arrays can be done in a single line with a string.