What is mean Character Array?

In C programming, character array means array of data type char. It is called as "string". A string is a sequence of characters terminated with a null character. Strings are one-dimensional array of type characters terminated by a null character '\0'. This null character indicates the end of the string. Strings are always enclosed by double quotes. Whereas, character is enclosed by single quotes in C.

Example

 char c[  ]="c string";

It is represent in string as follows

Declaration

char a[5];

Here, we declared a string of 5 characters.

In C programming string is known as the character array.