Question about pointers and strings in C [duplicate]

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I have some code that has had me puzzled.

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char* string1 = "this is a test";
  char string2[] = "this is a test";
  printf("%i, %i\n", sizeof(string1), sizeof(string2));
  system("PAUSE"); 
  return 0;
}

When it outputs the size of string1, it prints 4, which is to be expected because the size of a pointer is 4 bytes. But when it prints string2, it outputs 15. I thought that an array was a pointer, so the size of string2 should be the same as string1 right? So why is it that it prints out two different sizes for the same type of data (pointer)?

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задан Community 23 May 2017 в 12:16

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