Character Arrays and More

Character Arrays

You can have an array of any data type : integer, float etc...

You can even have character arrays. Character arrays are used to store strings. String means a series of characters. You know that the character data type can take in only a single character. Whereas a character array can take in a number of characters. The size depends on the size of the array.

Example :
char name[10];
The above declaration declares an array of character type that can store 10 characters. The name of the array is name.

// A program getting the name of a person and displaying the name
# include <iostream.h>
int main ( )
{
char name[15];
cout<< "Enter your name : ";
cin>> name;
cout<< "Your name is "<<name;
return 0;
}

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