Character array, terminated by a null character .

Defined a number of ways:

Characters enclosed individually with 'single quotes'

char myArray[8] = { 'D', 'e', 'r', 'r', 'i', 'c', 'k', ''  } ;

char myArray[ ] = { 'D', 'e', 'r', 'r', 'i', 'c', 'k', ''  } ;

or within "double quotes"
char myArray[8] = "Derrick" ;
char myArray[ ] = "Derrick" ;

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

	char myArray[8] = "Derrick" ;

	printf("Array elements:n");
	for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {

		printf("%d = %c, n", i, myArray[i] ) ;
	}

	return 0;
}

Compile & run:

notice that the 8th element contains nothing = the NULL character

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

	char myArray[8] = "Derrick" ;

	for (int i = 0; i <8; i++) {

		printf("%c", myArray[i] ) ;
	}
	return 0;
}

Compile & run:

Alternatively, the %s string format specifier can be used to print the whole string.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

	char myArray[ ] = { 'D', 'e', 'r', 'r', 'i', 'c', 'k', ''  } ;

		printf("The array contains: %s n", myArray ) ;

	return 0;
}

Compile & run:

There are a number of predefined functions made to work with strings, to be accessed here!