Hardware Hacking

Strings

Strings are any quoted series of characters such as:

"Hello, World!"

Character strings are a special case of array. Specifically, a string is an array of characters (termi-

nated with an invisible null character, which is notated \0).

The string in Table 15.7, my_string, is an array with 14 elements.The 14

th

element, which we

access from my_string[13], is the null character. It’s an important part of the string we must not forget,

even though we never see it!

Table 15.7 Character Strings as Arrays

String my_string

0123456 78910111213

Hello,space Wo r l d ! \0

As with any other array, a character string can be declared either with a pointer or with ...