Help with getting data

[peter7601]

hi, here is my problem.
"enter the two characters:" user enters "ac"
this is the prompt im giving and the user enters the data in the correct format. i just need to get it in the way that i can be able to distinguish between the two characters later on. ive tried a few different ways, im using printf and scanf except whenever i do this the 2nd character ends up being not what i wanted. thanks in advance

[speed]

well try gets().

#include <stdlib.h>

char input[2]; //user input

void main
{
printf("Enter something: ");
gets(input);
printf("\n");

printf("%c, %c\n", input[0], input[1]);
}

[COLOR=green]

now both the variables the user entered are in input[0] and
input[1]. that is the easiest way.