Assign a New Value

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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";

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