A programmer can initialize a string variable during declaration: char firstMont

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A programmer can initialize a string variable during declaration: char firstMonth[8]"January" The literal's number of characters should be less than the array size. Strings are always terminated with a special character called the null character, . To hold the string January", 8 characters are needed, J, 'a, 'n, u, 'a, r, y,10. A programmer can omit the size as in char firstMonth"January";, in which case the compiler creates an array of the necessary size. If not initialized to a particular literal, a good practice is to initialize a string to " as in char birthMonth[15] PARTICIPATION ACTIVITY 2.11.3: String initialization. Declare a string named smallestPlanet, initialized to "Mercury". Let the compiler determine the string's size. Check Show answer 2) Given homePlanet)-Earth, what size array is created by the compiler? Check Show answer Feedback?

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1. Declare a string names smallestPlanet, initialized to 'Mercury'.
   Let the compiler determine the string's size.
   char smallestPlanet[] = "Mercury";   //Creates a character array named smallestPlanet, and will assign "Mercury" to that array.
2. Given homePlanet[] = "Earth", what size array is created by the compiler.
homePlanet[] = "Earth"; //This will create an array named homePlanet of size 6. And it will
be stored like: {'E', 'a', 'r', 't', 'h', ''}

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