String pointer and array of chars in c

Question

I just start learning C and found some confusion about the string pointer and string(array of char). Can anyone help me to clear my head a bit?

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Answer 1

Although pointer and array seems familiar, they are different. the char *name3 is just a pointer to char, it takes no more memory than a pointer. it just store a address in it, so you can assign a string to it then the address stored in name3 change to the address of "Apple".

But your name4 is an array of char[10], it holds the memory of 10 chars, if you want to assign it, you need to use strcpy or something to write it's memory, but not assign it with an address like "Apple".