What is string?
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation). A string is generally understood as a data type and is often implemented as an array of bytes (or words) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding. A string may also denote more general arrays or other sequence (or list) data types and structure
In simple: String is the array of character. It used to represent data like name, address, word, sentence, paragraph etc.
Functions of string
- String.h header file supports all the string functions in C language. All the string functions are given below.
| String functions | Description |
| strcat ( ) | Concatenates str2 at the end of str1 |
| strncat ( ) | Appends a portion of string to another |
| strcpy ( ) | Copies str2 into str1 |
| strncpy ( ) | Copies given number of characters of one string to another |
| strlen ( ) | Gives the length of str1 |
| strcmp ( ) | Returns 0 if str1 is same as str2. Returns <0 if strl < str2. Returns >0 if str1 > str2 |
| strcmpi ( ) | Same as strcmp() function. But, this function negotiates case. “A” and “a” are treated as same. |
| strchr ( ) | Returns pointer to first occurrence of char in str1 |
| strrchr ( ) | last occurrence of given character in a string is found |
| strstr ( ) | Returns pointer to first occurrence of str2 in str1 |
| strrstr ( ) | Returns pointer to last occurrence of str2 in str1 |
| strdup ( ) | Duplicates the string |
| strlwr ( ) | Converts string to lowercase |
| strupr ( ) | Converts string to uppercase |
| strrev ( ) | Reverses the given string |
| strset ( ) | Sets all character in a string to given character |
| strnset ( ) | It sets the portion of characters in a string to given character |
| strtok ( ) | Tokenizing given string using delimiter |
