me and always declared as an array. The general form of declaration of a string variable is, char string_name [size]; The size determines the number of characters in the string_name. When the compiler assigns a character string to a character array, it automatically supplies a null character(‘\0’) at the end of the string. The size should be equal to the maximum number of characters in the string plus one. Initializing a String: This can be done in two wa char c[] = "abcd"; char c[50] = "abcd"; char c[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', '\0'}; char c[5] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', '\0'}; 1. char str1[7]=“Welcome”; 2. char str2[8]={‘W’,’e’,’l’,’c’,’o’,’m’,’e’,’\0’}; A string can be initialized in different ways. We will explain this with the help of an example. Below is an example to declare a string with name as str and initialize it with “GeeksforGeeks”.