Difference between and ' in C++?

[stuck crag]

So i was learning about strings and i made the following:
char str[6] = { "H", "i", "\0" };
which displayed the following error:
C++ a value of type cannot be used to initialize an entity of type
but then i later found out i needed to use ' instead of ", why? what is the difference?

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[hot swift]

Char uses ‘ ‘ single quotes

[cold trench]

The things you put inside your array are c strings, of type const char[]

But the array is supposed to hold characters

[stuck crag]

thanks! another thing:

int main() {
    // \0 is a NULL charecter to mark the end of the string
    char str[6] = { 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0' };

    std::cout << str;
    std::cout << str;
}

the \0 marks the end of the string but if i remove it, seemingly nothing changes? i printed the string twice to see if it would maybe change what lines they print on but it stays the same

[cold trench]

Normally you would get weird characters on your screen without the null character

Since cout interprets your char array as a string and keeps printing until it finds a '\0' char

[stuck crag]

good to know!

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