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Section   20.2   Assign a New Value 
 
Just like the variables we have previously worked with, strings can also be updated after they are initialized.
Activity   20.2 . 
 
Can you assign a new string value to 
firstName in the code? For example, can you use the following line?
firstName = "Alex";
 
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Investigate   20.3 . 
 
We declare strings as arrays of type 
char , so is it possible to include numbers within these strings? For example, could we declare the following string?
char firstName[] = "Simon1234";