How to empty a char array?

Question

Have an array of chars like char members[255]. How can I empty it completely without using a loop?

char members[255];

By \"empty\" I mean that

Answer 1

EDIT: Given the most recent edit to the question, this will no longer work as there is no null termination - if you tried to print the array, you would get your characters followed by a number of non-human-readable characters. However, I'm leaving this answer here as community wiki for posterity.

char members[255] = { 0 };

That should work. According to the C Programming Language:

If the array has fixed size, the number of initializers may not exceed the number of members of the array; if there are fewer, the remaining members are initialized with 0.

This means that every element of the array will have a value of 0. I'm not sure if that is what you would consider "empty" or not, since 0 is a valid value for a char.