Using %s in C correctly - very basic level

Question

I know that %s is a string of characters, but I don\'t know how to use it. Can anyone provide me a very basic example of how its used and how its different from char ?

Answer 1

%s will get all the values until it gets NULL i.e. '\0'.

char str1[] = "This is the end\0";
printf("%s",str1);

will give

This is the end

char str2[] = "this is\0 the end\0";
printf("%s",str2);

will give

this is