Sizeof vs Strlen

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sizeof and strlen() do different things. In this case, your declaration

char string[] = "october";

is the same as 

char string[8] = "october";

so the compiler can tell that the size of string is 8. It does this at compilation time.

However, strlen() counts the number of characters in the string at run time. So, after you call strcpy(), string now contains “september”. strlen() counts the characters and finds 9 of them. Note that you have not allocated enough space for string to hold “september”. This is undefined behaviour.

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