String is actually not a data type in C. It actually is something called a char star and we'll come back to this before long.

字符串在C语言里其实不是一种数据类型,而是一种称为char，*的数据类型,这个知识点我以后会讲到。

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Well basically what we're doing is we're giving ourselves the ability to create data types the same way that we have some built-ins, so we have things like int, float, string, these are built-in data types.

就是要赋值我们自己创建,和内置的数据类型,相同的数据类型的能力,我们有一些内置的数据类型，如int，float，string等，如果你考虑下这些数据类型。

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