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Sunday 30 December 2012

STRING LITERAL

A string literal or a string constant is a sequence of characters from the system's character set, 
enclosed in double quotes.By default ,the null character '\0' is assumed as the last character in a 
string literal. To have a double quotes itself as a character in the string constant, an escape 
sequence '\'' is used.

"hello" is a valid string literal.The actual number of characters in this string literal is 6 including 
the null character at the last.The null character is invisible here.Six bytes are required to store this 
string in memory.However, the physical length of the string is 5 characters.

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