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How to get character data in c program

How can I get this 'Loyal' character data in C program??? scanf("%c",&Var); Or scanf("%s",&Var); Or scanf("%ch",&Var); And print the actual text!

17th Oct 2019, 10:58 PM
Fahim Rayhan
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In C, you have to differentiate between char (single letters) and strings, which are char arrays. A char might be declared and initialized like this: char letter = 'a'; And a string like this: char word[] = "alpha"; Pay attention to the different quotation marks, that's no coincidence! Now in order to write into a char (single letter), you use: scanf("%c", &letter); And in case of a string you write: scanf("%s", word); Pay attention to the string not having an & - that's because an array variable, if you don't index it, is already an address.
17th Oct 2019, 11:14 PM
HonFu
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