Thread: help me understand string

Here's a tutorial for character strings (char), but it's for C++. However, since it's char arrays, it suits for C, as well:
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson9.html

And forget gets. You should never use it.
Printf is a function that prints a "formatted" string to the screen. Having a look at printf's documentation may help.
Puts prints a string to the screen.
Fgets reads a string from the user.
FPuts writes a string to a file.
Getc reads a character from the user.
Putc prints a character to the screen.
And fflush empties the output buffer and makes sure any data there goes to its destination. Typically used to force data to the screen when printing to make sure the user sees the text on the screen or in files when you need the data to be written to disk (otherwise it can potentially stay in memory). Never flush stdin.