Can you explain what is meant by the term C-string in programming?

A C-string is a way of representing strings in the C and C++ languages. It is an array of characters ending with a special null character \0 (null-terminator). This character indicates the end of the string.

Features of C-strings:

• Implicit length: the length is determined by searching for \0.
• Requires careful memory management.
• Allows the use of standard functions from <string.h>, such as strlen, strcpy.

Example of a C-string:

char str[] = "Hello"; // actually {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'}

printf("%s", str); // Will output Hello

It is important to remember that when working with C-strings, you need to monitor memory allocation and deallocation to avoid errors.