Pointer to char and Array of char

char *s = "My Brother";

• Declares a pointer s to char, initializes it to the starting address of a string.

char c[]= "My Car";

• Declares an array c of size 7, with c[0]='M', c[1]='y', …, c[5]='r', c[6] ='\0'.

• Then we can say

s = c; Or equivalently s = &c[0];

• But NOT

c = "My hand"; or c = s;

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