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C doesn't have strings. ;-)

• Snarwin 6y ago
  More precisely, it doesn't have a string type.
  • Skunkleton 6y ago
    It certainly has string literals, which are a kind of type.
    • mark-r 6y ago
      That's the thing, they're not a type - they're just an array of char with an unspecified length, indistinguishable from any other array of char or pointer to char. Only the convention of ending them with a null character makes them usable at all.
      • Skunkleton 6y ago
        printf("%lu\n", sizeof("Well, actshully")); -> 16
        • rightbyte 6y ago
          One could say that C has a different type for each string size plus the joker pointer to char.
• tus88 6y ago
  That's because they were conflated with both arrays and pointers.