02/21/00
COM1100 Winter2000 Yuhong Yin
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Character array initialization
nIf I want to declare
a character array and initialize it, there are normally three ways:
nchar codes[6]
= {s, a, m, p, l, e}
nSize is 6
nchar
codes[] = {s, a, m, p, l,
e}
nSize is 6
nchar codes[]
= sample; //no braces or commas
nSize is 7
nWe can use the string sample to initialize the codes array.
This declaration created an array named codes having 7 elements. The last one is \0, also called null character. The
null character is automatically appended to all strings by the C++ compiler.