1.1.4 Declaring Two-Dimensional character array

we can also form the array of strings as like the array of numbers.
List of fruits, list of vegetables are examples of the array of strings.
These can be represented in C using two-dimensional character arrays. The size of the row is the number of strings and size of the column is the length of the each string plus 1.(i.e. ‘\0’ null character)
To store the name of five fruits with longest fruit name of 9 character, following declaration is used.
char fruits[5][10];
The array fruits is initialized as follows:
char fruits[5][10]={ “apple”, “grape” , “pineapple” , “banana”, “orange” };
The size in above is not compulsory. If not given, compiler calculates it.
To access particular fruit name from fruit array, say i^th fruit name, we can use fruit[i]
char fruit[5][10] occupies total 50 bytes. Each fruit name occupies 10 bytes.

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