[OCLUG-devel] Initializing Strings

[Michael Elkins]

On 9/8/05, Doug Jolley <ddjolley at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Anyway, my question is, in the first case, is my textbook wrong and there
> is no automatically supplied null character?  As I said, that appears to be
> the case and I hope that it is -- or, am I missing something?

>From what I remember, the textbook is correct.  gcc seems to add the
null character.

You are initializing from a string.  If you want an array of
character, you can do this:

char string2[40] = {'D','o','u','g'};

Although, I seem to remember that in some cases the rest of the array
gets filled (or was that struct assignment?).

Michael