Another Perler here, so ask away! After programming string manipulations in C you'll appreciate how much Perl does for you. Of course Perl is actually written in C. :-)
The main thing to remember about strings in C is that they're zero-terminated arrays of chars. (Chars are small integers that can also be regarded as characters.) If you want an array of strings, you generally have to set up an array of pointers to arrays of char. This is more complicated than doing the same job in Perl. An important thing Perl does is take care of memory allocation and garbage collection. In C you have to do it all yourself; this is a common source of bugs, memory leaks and insecure code. David
