String literals and string initializations

Initializing strings in C can be quite confusing sometimes. Do you use char* or char[] and what are the differences? We'll find out in this video.
Feel free to ask questions in the comments below!
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[@mpi6416]

Very good and clear. Thank you very much

[@noweare1]

I was always confused about the difference and when to use char * var or char var[ ], thanks

[@lilyscarlet2584]

c strings are stored in a read only static memory section and when you use array syntax it just copies it into a buffer on the stack where when you use char* it is just a reference to that read only static memory that cant be modified.

[@CodeVault]

Not quite. The part about using char* is correct and, most of the time C strings are just a reference to that read-only part of memory. But there's a special case when using string literals at initialization of a char array:
char arr[] = "Test";
Is just syntactic sugar for:
char arr[] = {'T', 'e', 's', 't', '\0'};
And doesn't actually save that string "Test" into the read only memory.
Although I can't say this as a definite answer as there might be different implementations of this in certain compilers

[@lilyscarlet2584]

@@CodeVault yeah you are right i forgot to mention that

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[@saurabhpandey8174]

Char *str is stored in .ro memory ☺️