Assigning strings to arrays of characters

Question

I am a little surprised by the following.

Example 1:

char s[100] = \"abcd\"; // declare and initialize - WORKS

Example 2:

Answer 1

Note that you can still do:

s[0] = 'h';
s[1] = 'e';
s[2] = 'l';
s[3] = 'l';
s[4] = 'o';
s[5] = '\0';