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A string consists of an array of characters and is delimited by double quotes. There is no string type for storing strings in C. Instead, strings are commonly assigned to a character array, as shown here.

char myString[] = "Hi";

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Olsson, M. (2019). Strings. In: Modern C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4288-9_7

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