Storing Words in a Variable?

[zacharyrs]

How can I store an actual word with a variable? My ideal would be as thus:

int main ()

{
//introduce variable
whatvariable a;

//make user input a word
printf("Enter a word here:");

//store the word as a var
scanf("%d", &whatvariable);

//Print what user input
printf("Your word was %d\n", a");

//return that ........
return 0;


}

Sorry if this c code is horrible, I just started learning today

[matsp]

So, in C, a word is a string (at least if by word we mean "hello", "world", "big", "small", "tea-cosy" and such things).

C represents strings as an array of characters, where the end is marked with a zero (the value zero, not the digit '0').

To read/write a string with scanf/printf, you use %s.

--
Mats

[MK27]

Hopefully you have some stuff to read on this, here's an example:

char myexample[16]="hello world";

Notice that myexample is 16 elements/bytes/characters long. It could be as short as 12 here, 11 for "hello world" and 1 for the '/0' zero byte (null terminator) mentioned by matsp.

[Elysia]

Correction: '\0', not '/0'.
Different things in C.