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what is an array in c ? explain.


V.sandhya 13th Feb, 2022
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Sumedha Bhattacharya 13th Feb, 2022

Dear Student ,

Array is generally  the collection of homogeneous data types in linear/contiguous memory location in a sequential manner .  The data types array accepts to store is int,float, char , double etc.

As an example, we can say .. to store the roll no wise students name through C prog, we can use a array .

Array Advantage:

  • Time Optimization
  • Easy to traverse
  • Sorting and random access

Disadvantage :

In Array size is fixed as at the time of declaration of array , we must initialize with the array size.


To know more about array , refer this C programming course article :

https://www.careers360.com/courses-certifications/udemy-complete-c-programming-course-c-language-for-students-course

Hope this helps !


keshav kumar 13th Feb, 2022

Hi,

Hope you are doing great.

An array is the collection of various types of data items stored at various locations. They are the derived data type in the C language. which can store the primitive type of data such as int, char, double, float, etc. If you want to store similar elements then the C array proves to be very beneficial. By using the array, we can access the elements easily. Only a few lines of code are required to access the elements of the array.

Some of the advantages of using C Array are:

  • Code Optimization.
  • Ease of traversing
  • Ease of sorting
  • Random Access

Hope this helps.


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