Why is a string literal considered as an lvalue expression when it cannot be referenced?

Asked Apr 23 '19 at 10:35

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I am trying to understand lvalue expressions.

In the following link cppreference-value-categories I read the following statement under the 'lvalue' section.

The following expressions are lvalue expressions:

a string literal, such as "Hello, world!";

Could someone explain why this is an lvalue rather than a rvalue?

edited Apr 23 '19 at 10:36

asked Apr 23 '19 at 10:35

Nujufas

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String literals are really constant arrays of characters, and can therefore be used much like other (constant) arrays in your program (including getting their address taken with the address-of operator `&`). – Some programmer dude Apr 23 '19 at 10:38

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