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Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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Chapter 15 – Working with Strings

  1. Whitespace is a non-printable character that creates white space in the output. Space, tab, and vertical tab are examples of whitespace characters.
  2. A C string is (1) an array of characters (2) that's terminated by the NULL character.
  3. A C string array can be larger than the characters in the string; the end of the string is determined by the NULL character and any array elements after that can be ignored. A string array can never hold more characters (including the NUL character) than the size of the array.
  4. 'x' is a single character. "x" is a C string of one character with the NULL character.
  5. An empty string is a string with no characters in the array except for the NULL character. A NULL string is a declaration of a string array or a pointer to a string array that has never been allocated.
  6. The "Hello" literal string is only modifiable when it is used as an initializer to a constant...
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Jeff Szuhay

Jeff Szuhay is the principal developer at QuarterTil2 which specializes in graphics-rich software chronographs for desktop environments. In his software career of over 35 years, he has engaged in a full range of development activities from systems analysis and systems performance tuning to application design, from initial development through full testing and final delivery. Throughout that time, he has taught computer applications and programming languages at various educational levels from elementary school students to university students, as well as developed and presented professional, on-site training.
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