What is a string constant? Give an example.

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Concept understanding — Constants in C

A constant is a value that is fixed and does not change while the program runs. C constants fall into two broad families.

Numeric constants represent numbers:

Integer constants - whole numbers with no decimal point, e.g. 100, -25.
Real (floating) constants - numbers with a decimal point or an exponent, e.g. 3.14 or 0.1234e-4.

Non-numeric constants represent characters and text:

Character constant - a single character enclosed in single quotes, e.g. 'A' or '='. Each character has a numeric ASCII value (for example the character '=' has the ASCII code 61).
String constant - a sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes, e.g. "BANGALORE". …

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A string constant is characters enclosed in double quotes, e.g. "Hello".

A string constant (string literal) is a group of characters written within double quotation marks, such as "PUC" or "Hello World". The compiler stores it as an array of characters and automatically adds a null character '\0' at the end to mark where the string finishes. This distinguishes a string like "A" (two bytes: 'A' and ' …

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