How to correctly input a string in C

Question

I am currently learning C, and so I wanted to make a program that asks the user to input a string and to output the number of characters that were entered, the code compiles fin

Answer 1

You need to allocate space where it will put the input data. In your program, you can allocate space like:

char i[] = "                                     ";

Which will be ok. But, using malloc is better. Check out the man pages.