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Answer by l.gnanasekar
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Hi viewers, +------------------------------------------+ \| Integer array \| Character array \| +------------------------------------------+ \|1. int a[10]; \| char a[10]; \| \| it allocates 20 \| but it allocates \| \| bytes. \| only 10 bytes \| \|---------------------\|-------------------\| \| 2. It points two \| But it points only \| \| address. \| one adddress. \| \|---------------------\|--------------------\| \| 3. At the not have \| But at the END it \| \| NULL value assign \| Must use NULL char \| \| \| Then only it \| \| \| terminate the str \| \|---------------------\|--------------------\| \| 4. we can use index \| Use of index is for\| \| for a single value \| access single char \| +------------------------------------------+

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Question by paw
Submitted on 8/6/2003
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What is the difference between integer arrays and character arrays?

Answer by Raveen
Submitted on 8/8/2003
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When you access an integer array with out any index specification you will get the address of first cell in the array where as in case of string array you will get whole string displayed.

Answer by Chava
Submitted on 8/11/2003
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Obviously, the length of the items in it.... Chars are 8 bit in length while integer are 16 bit.

Answer by Kishore reddy
Submitted on 2/10/2004
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In integer array each element ocqupies 2 bytes. but in character array each character ocquipes only one byte. the main difference is intorms of memory

Answer by chiru-k
Submitted on 6/10/2004
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integer array takes 2 bytes for each cell whereas char takes 1 byte

Answer by pummi
Submitted on 6/18/2004
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character array could be printed using printf statement but we cannot do that to a integer array!

Answer by ilias mohd
Submitted on 12/13/2004
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Inter array ends with "don't the character",but character array ends in "/0".

Answer by ramya
Submitted on 5/25/2005
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Strings r terminated with NULL(\0) character and array 's r not

Answer by shadowman
Submitted on 10/6/2005
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main difference is the NULL character as character arrays are considered as strings

Answer by Aftab Alam
Submitted on 2/13/2006
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Arrays:We can access randomly any individual element of an array, but Strings:We have to process the string sequentially i.e. character by character from start to end.

Answer by abhinavballu
Submitted on 12/10/2006
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Submitted on 6/21/2007
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