Professor Kirs

Strings: Sample Problems and Exercises

1.0010 What is a string, and why do we put a NULL character at the end of it?

1.0015 Explain why strings are viewed differently from numeric arrays.

1.0020 Explain how strings are stored differently in RAM than are numeric arrays

1.0040 Explain what the function atoi does and where it is found.

1.0041 Explain what the function ftoi does and where it is found.

1.0050 If I have two strings called mystring1 and mystring2, and two integers called myinteger1 and myinteger2, and I can issue the command

myinteger2 = myinteger1;

why can’t I issue the command:

mystring2 = mystring1?

SEE SOLUTION

1.0100 Given:

char mystring[5];

AND we learn that the base address of mystring is 8356. If we were to look in RAM, we would find:

If we were to issue the command:

puts(mystring);

what would the output be??

1.0105 Given: char helloarray[] = “hello”;

Show RAM Storage assuming a base address of 1200