What is the difference between string and an array ?

Question

String and array both looks same

Answer 1

http://www.careerride.com/c-string-and-array.aspx

http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/3420

Answer 2

Hope this helps! ;) https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/212665/settle-an-argument-string-vs-array

Answer 3

I know only java and c as per my academics.
In c, a character array is called a string. There is nothing separately called a string.
In java, strings exists though. It has a separate entity. You can use character arrays but strings are more easily handled and manipulated