What is string.h and why do we use?

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The string.h header defines one variable type, one macro, and various functions for manipulating arrays of characters.

#include<string.h>

Functions provided by string.h

The string.h header file declares a set of functions to work strings. To perform operations like comparison, concatenation, and copying, this string.h library is widely used. This header file defines several functions to manipulate C strings and arrays.

  1. Copying – memcpy, memmove, strcpy, strncpy
  2. Concatenation – strcat, strncat
  3. Comparison – memcmp, strcmp, strcoll, strncmp, strxfrm
  4. Searching – memchr, strchr, strcspn, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtok
  5. Other – memset, strerror, strlen

Note

NULL is macro and size_t is a type used in C provided

  • NULL – Null pointer (macro)
  • size_t – Unsigned integral type (type)

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