static const char aString[] = "This is a constant static string.";
 
static const char *arrayOfStrings[] = {
  "This is an array of constant static strings.",
  "Another string.",
  "Yet another string."
};
 

char myString[] = "some string";

 
char *myString = "some string";
 

 
char myString[] = "some string"; // Explicitly create an array of characters
char *stringPointer = &myString[0]; // Make stringPointer point to the first character in myString
char *stringPointerTwo = "some string";  // Implicitly create an array of characters and make stringPointerTwo point to the first character
// stringPointer and strPointerTwo now each point to a different character array
// containing "some string" and will show as equal when comparing with string functions, e.g., strcmp()
 

 
static const char myArraryOfCharacterArrays[][] = {
   "String1",
   "String2",
   "String3'
}
 

 
static const char *myArrayOfStringPointers[] = {
   "String1",
   "String2",
   "String3"
}
 

 
bobby@dev1:~$ cat test.c
int main(void) {
   char *myString = "a string";
   char myChar = '\0';
   myChar = myString;    // Can't assign a string (character array) to a character.
   return 0;
}
bobby@dev1:~$ gcc test.c
test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:4: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
bobby@dev1:~$