Array Initialization

Initializing an array at the time of its declaration is a common and convenient practice in C programming. It allows you to populate the array with starting values in a single, clean statement. There are several ways to do this, depending on your needs. The most common method is to provide a comma-separated list of values enclosed in curly braces `{}`. For a one-dimensional array, this looks like: `int numbers[5] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};`. The values are assigned to the array elements in order, starting from index 0. If you provide fewer initializers than the size of the array, the remaining elements are automatically initialized to zero. For example, `int arr[5] = {1, 2};` will result in an array `{1, 2, 0, 0, 0}`. This is a handy trick to initialize an entire array to zero: `int zeros[100] = {0};`. C also allows you to omit the size of the array in the declaration if you are initializing it. The compiler will automatically determine the size of the array based on the number of initializers provided. For instance, `int list[] = {2, 4, 6, 8};` creates an integer array named `list` of size 4. For two-dimensional arrays, you use nested braces, where each inner brace list initializes a row: `int matrix[2][3] = {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}};`. Understanding these initialization techniques is crucial for writing concise and error-free code.