String is actually not a data type in C. It actually is something called a char star and we'll come back to this before long.

字符串在C语言里其实不是一种数据类型,而是一种称为char，*的数据类型,这个知识点我以后会讲到。

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We did it for silly purposes just to see how big each data type was, but on most systems the size of a char is what?

只是为了很傻的目的,来看看每个数据类型多大，但是在大多数的系统中char的大小是多少呢？

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