Problem in printing the desired value of strlen in character array

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Published on 2010-04-09T16:26:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 16:33 UTC
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char p[4]={'h','g','y'};
cout<<strlen(p);

This code prints 3.

char p[3]={'h','g','y'};
cout<<strlen(p);

This prints 8.

char p[]={'h','g','y'};
cout<<strlen(p);

This again prints 8.

Please help me as I can't figure out why three different values are printed by changing the size of the array.

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