string variables in C

[serg1980]

hello! I'm switching from pascal to C
I have a question.
How to assign a value to a string variable.
In pascal I did it as follows:

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var str:array[5] of char;//declared a string variable with five characters
.....
str:='hello';//assigned a value to the 'str' variable

how to do the same in C?

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char str[5];
.....
str = "hello";//Error

[serg1980]

It turned out to do as follows:

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char *str;
.....
str = "hello";

I don't know how correct this is. But it works