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From: haggas@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Quick Question - Strings
Message-ID: <168599@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 10 Dec 90 16:37:12 GMT
References: <12677@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <12677@milton.u.washington.edu>, mm@blake.u.washington.edu (Eric Gorr) writes:
> Well, here it is for all you C experts:
> 
> In BASIC, you can write the simple, one line instruction:
> 
>     TEST = "Hello"
> 
> What I want to know is how to do this in C after the code where I declared the
> varables.  Please provide some sample code...
> 
> Please Respond through E-mail.
> 
> Thanx for your help.....!!
> 
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> PS:  If it matters, I am programming on a MAC with Lightspeed C..but I don't
>      think it should..
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You may define a global or externa string array, that is outside of 
the function main(), like this:
char string[] = "Test";	/* the null char '\0' is automatically 
appended */

or you may define an automatic variable in the main() function, like 
this:
static char string[] = "Test";	/* viable and seen only in main() */
				/* local or automatic variables are */
				/* not created until the function is 
called, static variable are created by the compiler and don't 
disappear when the funtion ( main() ) terminates. */

or , if your cranky:

static char string[] = { 'T', 'e', 's', 't', '\0' };
/* character by character - don't forget the end of string terminator 
*/
A global string array will be visible to all the functions succeeeding 
it, if it is global; therefore, if you wish your string array to be 
visible to all functions including main(), it must preceed main()
in the global data block.
Good luck!