Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days

DAY 10

WEEK 2

Working with Characters

and Strings

Acharacteris a single letter, numeral, punctuation mark, or other such

symbol. A stringis any sequence of characters. Strings are used to

hold text data, which is comprised of letters, numerals, punctuation marks, and

other symbols. Clearly, characters and strings are extremely useful in many pro-

gramming applications. Today you will learn:

• How to use C’s chardata type to hold single characters


• How to create arrays of type charto hold multiple-character strings


• How to initialize characters and strings


• How to use pointers with strings


• How to print and input characters and strings

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