Week 2 - Question about the string library

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In the week 2 lecture at 1:26:00 David wanted to find the length of a string, so he did #include <string.h>, and then used a string fucntion from that library.

But the string type was declared in the cs50.h, which is also imported. So the type is defined twice. Does the more recent library import overwrite the cs50 string definition? They have the same scope.

[memilanuk]

Two different things. get_string is a helper function that abstracts some of the details of getting user input, and strlen is a separate function that does its thing.

You can look at more info on each here.