Question

Hi I have a char string

name[50] = "I love programming"

what happen is that I want to empty this string before I call my another function so that I can store something in the same array

will this work?

name[0] = '\0';

or is there anyway to empty the string without creating any new function or use any other library?

Answer 1

Use memset instead. This would just nullify the buffer but the memory allocated would any how gets deallocated from stack when the variable goes out of scope.

memset (name,'\0',sizeof(name));