{"id":20283,"date":"2024-03-15T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-strings-in-the-c-programming-language\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:43:00","slug":"how-to-read-strings-in-the-c-programming-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-strings-in-the-c-programming-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read strings in the C programming language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In C language, you can use the scanf function to read strings.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> str[<span class=\"hljs-number\">100<\/span>];\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\u8bf7\u8f93\u5165\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32: \"<\/span>);\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">scanf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"%s\"<\/span>, str);\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\u60a8\u8f93\u5165\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32\u662f: %s\\n\"<\/span>, str);\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, we defined a character array named str with a length of 100 to store the input string. We then used the scanf function to read the string, specifying the position to read the string with %s as the formatting string. It is important to note that %s can only read strings without spaces, so if the input string contains spaces, only the part before the space will be read.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if you need to read a string that contains spaces, you can use the fgets function.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> str[<span class=\"hljs-number\">100<\/span>];\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\u8bf7\u8f93\u5165\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32: \"<\/span>);\r\n    fgets(str, <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">sizeof<\/span>(str), <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">stdin<\/span>);\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\u60a8\u8f93\u5165\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32\u662f: %s\\n\"<\/span>, str);\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The fgets function can read a line of text, including the newline character. You need to specify the maximum length of the string to be read, and pass the input stream (stdin) as a parameter to the fgets function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In C language, you can use the scanf function to read strings. #include &lt;stdio.h&gt; int main() { char str[100]; printf(&#8220;\u8bf7\u8f93\u5165\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32: &#8220;); scanf(&#8220;%s&#8221;, str); printf(&#8220;\u60a8\u8f93\u5165\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32\u662f: %s\\n&#8221;, str); return 0; } In the example above, we defined a character array named str with a length of 100 to store the input string. 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