How does the C language define an array of strings?

In the C language, you can define string arrays using character arrays. Character arrays are fixed-size arrays composed of characters, used to store strings. You can define a string array using the following syntax:

char array_name[size][length];

Here, array_name is the name of the array, size is the number of strings the array can store, and length is the maximum length of each string.

For example, define an array that can store three strings of length 20.

char strings[3][20];

This defines an array of strings called “strings” that can store three strings with a length of 20 each.

You can access and manipulate each string in a string array by using indexes. For example, you can use the following code to assign values to the strings in the array:

strcpy(strings[0], "Hello");
strcpy(strings[1], "World");
strcpy(strings[2], "C");

In this way, each element in the array of strings is assigned the corresponding string value.