Functions and C-Style Strings
A C-style string, you recall, consists of a series of characters terminated by the null character. Much of what you've learned about designing array functions applies to string functions, too. But there are a few special twists to strings that we unravel now.
Suppose you want to pass a string as an argument to a function. You have three choices for representing a string:
An array of char
A quoted string constant (also called a string literal)
A pointer-to-char set to the address of a string
All three choices, however, are type pointer-to-char (more concisely, type char *), so you can use all three as arguments to string-processing functions:
char ghost[15] = "galloping"; char * str = "galumphing"; int n1 = strlen(ghost); ...
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