Explain the different types of array in C programming?

Answer 1

An array is an array. It is simply an arrangement of one (usually two) or more objects located sequentially in memory. You can address them with one or more indicies or pointers as desired, i.e. you can treat them as a list, as a rectangular matrix, as a cubical thing, or more, but they are still, in memory, a compact list of objects, one after the other. You can have arrays of simple scalar variables, of structures, of classes, even of other arrays, whatever you want, to any arbitrary complexity, but it still comes down to "how many do you want?" - "here they are - all next to each other".

There is a tendency, for instance, to think that an array of char, because it looks like a string, is different (philosophically) than an array of double. It is not. We treat it as string by convention. It is still an array, and each character is simply a different element of the array.