Objective-C Basics Arrays Code Challenge 1 of 4

Very helpful. Thanks for the tip! I couldn't figure out what was going wrong.

The reason that strings and chars are different variable types in C has to do with how they are stored in memory. In C strings are stored in memory as an array of chars, but since all information stored in a computer's memory is stored as a binary numbers and strings can have varying lengths there needed to be a way to differentiate true numeric arrays and string arrays. So it was decided that string arrays would have the last index in the array be null. That way the program would know to stop converting the binary numbers back into characters. If there was no null terminator at the end of string arrays the computer would read the next memory space after the string was suppose to end and convert that number stored in memory into a character. So at some point during the development of the C programming language it was decided that chars would use single quotes and strings would used double quotes to distinguish the two.