One of the greatest strengths of C strings is that they are simple, in the sense that they are built upon existing mechanisms—characters, arrays, and pointers. All of the considerations we have for arrays, pointers to arrays, and pointers to array elements also apply to strings. All of the ways we loop through arrays also apply to strings.
Another strength of C strings is thatthe C standard librarycomes with a rich set of functions with which to operate on strings. These functions make creating, copying, appending, extracting, comparing, and searching strings relatively easy and consistent.
