如何将字符串分配给 const char*？

Question

How is it possible to assign a string (an array of chars, if I'm understanding this correctly) to a const char* ? Any other pointer requires the new keyword followed by a type, but in this case the string is just assigned to a pointer. The pointer is a memory address, not an array of chars, but somehow it accepts the array of chars as a value.

(I really have tried finding an answer to this, but as I'm beginner I might have missed it, apologies if that's the case.)

Answer 1

Arrays can be implicitly converted to pointers to their first elements.

Most (but not all) operations on arrays perform this conversion, so arrays and pointers are often confused with each other. Good job figuring out the difference early on.

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Any other pointer requires the new keyword

Not true, consider this:

int x;
int *y = &x;

While you should know what they do, the manual use of new and delete is discouraged in modern C++, unless you're writing your own container or smart pointer.