Strings and Arrays of characters in C++

Low level strings are represented by arrays of characters in C and C++. These arrays are terminated by ‘\0’ , the special marker character null, which is used to indicate the end of a string.

char string1[ ] = { ‘H’,’e’,’l’,’l’,’o’,’ ‘, ‘W’, ‘o’, ‘r’, ‘l’, ‘d’, ‘\0’ }

The following short program could be used to display string1 :

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {

char string1[ ] = { ‘H’,’e’,’l’,’l’,’o’,’ ‘, ‘W’, ‘o’, ‘r’, ‘l’, ‘d’, ‘\0’ } ;

cout << string1 << endl ;

return 0;

}