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Character Arrays and Dynamic Memory

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Character arrays – a.k.a. "character strings," or text – are important for many tasks. This chapter shows how to handle them, and how to create those or other arrays when you don't know the size in advance.

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    Buffer: temporary storage, especially for I/O.

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Briggs, W. (2019). Character Arrays and Dynamic Memory. In: C++ for Lazy Programmers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5187-4_14

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