I started by defining a char array (char string[10]; works ok) and then
    tried to assign it a value (string = 'Hello!'; not ok).

    I was only able to initialize my "string" by individualy giving values to
    every byte in my array (string[0]='H'; string[1]='e'; and so on).

    Is this a normal behaviour for a PIC C compiler ? Do the Hitec and CCS
    compiler support strings ?

Um, this is pretty much standard behavior for ANY C compiler.  C does not
support strings to any reasonable extent - only arrays of characters and
pointers to characters.  Now, a lot of the standard C functions understand
pointers to memory containing character strings that happen to be terminated
by a null, but the LANGUAGE doesn't support much.

So, you can do:

        char *string = "Hello!";

Which gives you a pointer to a 7 character string.  This is generally
preferred, for constant strings...


Or you can have:

        char string[10];
        strncpy(string, "Hello!", sizeof(string));

Which is closer to exactly what you tried to write, but results in your
program ending up using twice the storage (one copy to hold the constant
string "Hello!", and one variable that you put it in.

BillW

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