Is null character included while allocating using malloc

Question

I have been using C for quite sometime, and I have this trivial problem that I want to query about.

Say i want to create a character array that stores upto 1000 cha

Answer 1

It's up to you to provide the null-terminating character.

malloc allocates memory for you but it doesn't set it to anything.

If you strcpy to the allocated memory then you will have a null-terminator provided for you.

Alternatively, use calloc as it will set all elements to 0, which is in effect the null-terminator. Then if you do, say, memcpy, you wouldn't have to worry about terminating the string properly.