Question

I came up through a strange problem where I had a string wherein it displayed all the characters and numerals without any issues. But the same thing was not possible with an integer array. As far as I know string is a NULL terminated character array. So, what makes strings different to display everything without any discrimination.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

The way you instruct the compiler to print them makes them different.

When your write

printf("%s", charPtr);

you tell the compiler that it should treat charPtr as a NULL-terminated string. It looks at the memory charPtr points to and interprets each byte as a character, until it reaches a 0.

There’s no equivalent for generic array types.