C strings confusion

Question

I\'m learning C right now and got a bit confused with character arrays - strings.

char name[15]=\"Fortran\";

No problem with this - its an

Answer 1

char* name is just a pointer. Somewhere along the line memory has to be allocated and the address of that memory stored in name.

• It could point to a single byte of memory and be a "true" pointer to a single char.
• It could point to a contiguous area of memory which holds a number of characters.
• If those characters happen to end with a null terminator, low and behold you have a pointer to a string.