#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

//string - a word or phrase stored in a variable 
//(a list of characters that to be viewed as one)

void main()
{
	int a[10] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};
//	char name[10] = {'E','m','m','a'};
	char name[10] = "Emma"; // you and only initialize like this at the declaration
	char name2[7] = "Elijah"; // you and only initialize like this at the declaration

	//"A" - this is two chars, A and a '\0', it makes a c-style string
	//'A' - this is just the char A

//	name = name2; //do not try to copy any list like this

	////when you try to display an array like this you will just get the address
	//cout << a << endl;

	////to diplay the values in an array you must do it one element at a time
	//for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
	//{
	//	//the [] after a pointer to tell the program to use the value at the address
	//	//plus the subscript (using pointer arithmetic)
	//	cout << a[i];
	//}
	//cout << endl;

	//char pointers are special
	//when the address of a char is sent to standared output
	//all of the the characters from that address forward are displayed
	//it stops dispaying characters when it gets to a char with the ascii value 0

	//the char with the ascii value 0 is known as the "null character"
	// a.k.a the "null terminator"
	//it is used to mark the end of "c-style strings"
	// '\0' - the escape sequence for the null terminator
	cout << name << endl;

	//c-style string - in the c & c++ programming language it is an array of
	//	charcters with a null terminator, intended to be used as a string

	//for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
	//{
	//	cout << name[i];
	//}
	//cout << endl;

	char junk[5] = {'a','b','c','d','e'};
	cout << (junk + 1) << endl;
}