How to declare strings in C [duplicate]

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This link should satisfy your curiosity.

Basically (forgetting your third example which is bad), the different between 1 and 2 is that 1 allocates space for a pointer to the array.

But in the code, you can manipulate them as pointers all the same — only thing, you cannot reallocate the second.

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