[dcl.init.string] (original) (raw)

An array of ordinary character type ([basic.fundamental]),char8_­t array,char16_­t array,char32_­t array, or wchar_­t array can be initialized by an ordinary string literal, UTF-8 string literal, UTF-16 string literal, UTF-32 string literal, or wide string literal, respectively, or by an appropriately-typed string-literal enclosed in braces ([lex.string]).

Successive characters of the value of the string-literalinitialize the elements of the array.

[Example 1:

char msg[] = "Syntax error on line %s\n";shows a character array whose members are initialized with astring-literal.

Note that because'\n'is a single character and because a trailing'\0'is appended,sizeof(msg)is25.

— _end example_]