Now at this point in the story, I have a variable called name, stored inside of that is the string, literally David.

再回到这里，我有一个名为name的变量，而且把字符串David赋给了name变量。

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When you declare a pointer yourself manually, you do say char * the variable name because recall that's the same thing that we did earlier but we called it instead string.

当你手动声明一个指针是，你可以说char，*，变量名字,因为那是我早些时候做的事情,但是我们叫它为字符串。

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int So whereas before I mentioned int, turns out if you wanna put a string in a variable, you have to say this is a string.

先不管我之前提到的，如果你想把一个字符串赋给某个变量，那你必须事先声明这个变量是string类型的。

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N So, I'm initializing a variable called N to the string length of s1.

我初始化一个变量,等于s1的字符串长度。

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