Initialize a string in C to empty string

Question

I want to initialize string in C to empty string. I tried:

string[0] = \"\"; 

but it wrote

\"warning: assignment makes inte         


        

Answer 1

You want to set the first character of the string to zero, like this:

char myString[10];
myString[0] = '\0';

(Or myString[0] = 0;)

Or, actually, on initialisation, you can do:

char myString[10] = "";

But that's not a general way to set a string to zero length once it's been defined.