Does the length of a string include the null terminator?

[ornate bane]

Lets say I had

char mystring[] = "cheese";

would the array length be 5 (how many letters are in cheese-1) or 6?

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[modest blaze]

6, when you don't specify the length of the array and you use a string literal to initialize it, it includes the null terminator

wait it's 7, you tricked me lol

cheese is 6 letters

plus 1 for null terminator

[ornate bane]

oops

what if I did

[6]

would it not include the null terminator

or would it just error or

[modest blaze]

then it wouldn't include the null terminator because it doesn't fit into the array

[ornate bane]

ah I see I see

thank you!

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[modest blaze]

np

[ornate bane]

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