I’m confused about the type of a string literal. Is it a const char * or a const char?
I’m confused about the type of a string literal. Is it a const char
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I’m confused about the type of a string literal. Is it a const char * or a const char?
It is a
const char[N](which is the same thing aschar const[N]), whereNis the length of the string plus one for the terminatingNUL(or just the length of the string if you define “length of a string” as already including theNUL).This is why you can do
sizeof("hello") - 1to get the number of characters in the string (including any embeddedNULs); if it was a pointer, it wouldn’t work because it would always be the size of pointer on your system (minus one).