How does the C language store strings?

In the C programming language, strings are stored as character arrays. Each character is stored using one byte, and the string is terminated with a null character ‘\0’.

Here are some common methods for storing strings:

1. You can use a character array to store a string by declaring a character array, for example:

char str[20] = "Hello, World!";

In this example, the character array str has enough space to store the string “Hello, World!” and its null terminator.

1. One option is to use character pointers to store strings, for example:

char *str = "Hello, World!";

In this example, the character pointer str points to the first character of the string constant “Hello, World!”.

Whether using a character array or a character pointer to store a string, we can utilize certain string handling functions to manipulate and process strings, such as strlen(), strcpy(), and strcmp().