string initialization

[Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to initialize staticly a string like this:
"abc\0defg\0hi\0"

if I define:
char *str[] = {
"abc",
"defg",
"hi" };

can I be sure that the 3 strings are placed consecutively? 
In this way I declase an array of strings. There is another way to avoid
this?

thanks

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