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Old February 11th, 2003, 07:25 PM
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Differences in index arrays

My book mentions that I can delcare an array like this:

char line[5] = "Hello";

Or, like this:

char line[] = "Hello";

I understand the compilar will automatically pick out what number should be in the [] but does this take more memory? My book is strong on "Good coding ediket" (or something). Does it use less memory by telling the array the index #er? Or does it not matter?
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char line[] = "hello"; will pick exactly the number of characters required to store the string (i.e.) 6 characters (5 characters + the trailing null character to delimit the string). It does not take more memory than is required. While you're at it:
char line[5] = "hello";
This should really read:
char line[6] = "hello";

You're omitting the trailing null character from the array otherwise.

P.S. I think you mean e-t-i-q-u-e-t-t-e

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