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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Mar 18, 2014

    I guess because it includes the null at the end; the terminating \0. By the way the correct way to get the length of string would be strlen() and not sizeof(); because sizeof will return the length of the array, not the string.

    C/C++ experts may offer better help.

    PS: Been away from programming since eternity.

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  • Jason Estibeiro
    Jason Estibeiro

    @jason-IQjfPQ • Mar 18, 2014

    The sizeof() function provides the size of the data type in bytes. The character array consist of a terminating character '\0' (hence name[5]='\0') (as told by #-Link-Snipped-# ) and since each char value occupies a space of one byte, hence the result is 6 ... 6 bytes.

    And again as #-Link-Snipped-# said, if you want the length of the string use strlen() function. Then you would get the answer as 5.

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  • Shailaja Tiwari
    Shailaja Tiwari

    @shailaja-tiwari-lKhGjd • Mar 18, 2014

    Yes it is the null character assumed to be appended at the end of the string ....

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  • Aadit Kapoor
    Aadit Kapoor

    @aadit-kapoor-EBxnXT • Mar 18, 2014

    Thank you friends!

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