char ch[] = ""

[Radde]

Hello,
why char ch[] = ""; allocated one byte of memory, even thogh i
created empty,,when i did sizeof(ch) gives 1 byte. What is it for?? Is
it of '\0' ???

Cheers..

 

[Clark S. Cox III]

Hello,
why char ch[] = ""; allocated one byte of memory, even thogh i
created empty,,when i did sizeof(ch) gives 1 byte. What is it for?? Is
it of '\0' ???

Yes, remember that even an empty string needs a terminating nul character.

 

[Jaspreet]

Hello,
why char ch[] = ""; allocated one byte of memory, even thogh i
created empty,,when i did sizeof(ch) gives 1 byte. What is it for?? Is
it of '\0' ???

Cheers..

Yes cheer up more, you are right. The string terminator is
automatically given space.

 

[Default User]

Hello,
why char ch[] = ""; allocated one byte of memory, even thogh i
created empty,,when i did sizeof(ch) gives 1 byte. What is it for?? Is
it of '\0' ???

Yes. Besides that, it's impossible to have objects of size 0, so it's
not possible to have an array with no elements.




Brian