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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Two questions on arrays with size defined by variables
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:56:29 +0100
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On 10.02.2025 01:46, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 18:18:04 +0100
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There's no such thing as a "string object" in C.  [...]

Since I didn't know what Michael was suspecting as a potential
problem I wanted to cover two aspects; assignation  s = "literal"
and  s = strcpy() . (Nothing more was intended to express by my
reply.)

> [ "C" and C++ considerations of strings character arrays, pointers ]

(In C++ I'm not using "C" strings but string objects, plus literal
strings of course.)

Janis