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what is the difference between a single character and a string
consisting only one character

In article
<bffb8ed3-e648-424a-a49f->,
<> wrote on Saturday 24 Nov 2007 2:57
pm:

> what is the difference between a single character and a string
> consisting only one character

Try this program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
char c0 = '0';
char c1[] = "0";

printf("Size of c0 is %u\nSize of c1 is %u\n", sizeof c0, sizeof c1);
return 0;
}

What is the output and why are the sizes for 'c0' and 'c1' different?
What does your C textbook say?

And try this one too:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
printf("Size of 'a' is %u\nSize of \"a\" is %u\n",
sizeof 'a', sizeof "a");
return 0;
}

What is the output and why are they different for 'a' and "a"?
What does you textbook say about this?

In article <fi8ska$rev$>, santosh
<> wrote on Saturday 24 Nov 2007 3:28 pm:

> In article
> <bffb8ed3-e648-424a-a49f->,
> <> wrote on Saturday 24 Nov 2007 2:57
> pm:
>
>> what is the difference between a single character and a string
>> consisting only one character
>
> Try this program:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void) {
> char c0 = '0';
> char c1[] = "0";
>
> printf("Size of c0 is %u\nSize of c1 is %u\n", sizeof c0, sizeof
> c1); return 0;
> }
>
> What is the output and why are the sizes for 'c0' and 'c1' different?
> What does your C textbook say?
>
> And try this one too:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void) {
> printf("Size of 'a' is %u\nSize of \"a\" is %u\n",
> sizeof 'a', sizeof "a");
> return 0;
> }
>
> What is the output and why are they different for 'a' and "a"?
> What does you textbook say about this?

Note that this second example could confuse you if you happen to compile
on systems where the type int is two bytes.

It's still worthwhile to consult your prescribed textbook and do a bit
of thinking on your own rather than ask for instant answers in
newsgroups.

wrote:

> what is the difference between a single character and a string
> consisting only one character

One's a single character, and the other is a sequence containing
a single character, implemented as a pointer to a sequence of
characters the second of which is a terminating nul character and
the first is the character in the string.

It's like the difference between an apple and a paper bag containing
an apple: the bag is not an apple, even though you can get an apple
out of it, or replace the apple with an orange. (Since the string
bag can contain only one fruit character, you can't mix apples and
oranges [1].)

[1] In this bag. In bigger bags you can.

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On Nov 24, 5:58 pm, santosh <santosh....@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article
> <bffb8ed3-e648-424a-a49f-f68b7b1a9...@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
> dat...@gmail.com <dat...@gmail.com> wrote on Saturday 24 Nov 2007 2:57
> pm:
>
> > what is the difference between a single character and a string
> > consisting only one character
>
> Try this program:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void) {
> char c0 = '0';
> char c1[] = "0";

This string "0" consists of two characters. The only string that
consists of a single char is "".

In article <a3f33b3f-bb91-4dff-b2ea->,
lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com <> wrote:
>On Nov 24, 5:58 pm, santosh <santosh....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <bffb8ed3-e648-424a-a49f-f68b7b1a9...@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
>> dat...@gmail.com <dat...@gmail.com> wrote on Saturday 24 Nov 2007 2:57
>> pm:
>>
>> > what is the difference between a single character and a string
>> > consisting only one character
>>
>> Try this program:
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main(void) {
>> char c0 = '0';
>> char c1[] = "0";
>
>This string "0" consists of two characters. The only string that
>consists of a single char is "".

strlen() and common sense say otherwise. You are confusing how big
something is with how much space it takes to store it. They are rarely
the same thing, and the later is usually greater than the former.

"" wrote:
>
> what is the difference between a single character and a string
> consisting only one character

The character contains exactly one char. The string contains two
chars, the char followed by '\0'. It the char is 'c', then you can
define the two cases with:

char c = 'c'; /* single char */
char *s = "c"; /* a string, non modifiable */
char m[] = "c"; /* a string, modifiable */

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lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:

> This string "0" consists of two characters.

The nul terminator isn't one of the characters "in" a
string.

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wrote:
> what is the difference between a single character and a string
> consisting only one character

You are posting too early in your knowledge quest. Read your book.

char ch = 'A';
char *ar = "A";

ch is the name of an object of type char which holds the value 'A'.

ar is the name of an object of type char* which holds the address of an
array of two char objects, 'A' and '\0'.

These two are exquisitely different things. Both are explained in your
book. Please read your C book.

--
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--- Albert Einstein ---

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:31:43 +0000, Chris Dollin wrote:
> lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> This string "0" consists of two characters.
>
> The nul terminator isn't one of the characters "in" a string.

From a common sense perspective:
char a[] = "0";
and
char a[] = { '0', '\0' };
do exactly the same thing, and common sense says that '\0' is "in" a in
the second case, so it must also be "in" a in the first.

From a standards perspective:
A string is defined as "a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by
and including the first null character".