Type for String Literals

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String literals have type array of char (that is, char[ ]). (Wide-character strings have type array of wchar_t (that is, wchar_t[ ]).) This means that a string is an array with elements of type char. The number of elements in the array is equal to the number of characters in the string plus one for the terminating null character.

C String Literals