pointer arithmetic in C for getting a string

Question

I want to get the elements of an array of characters, but no success at all, the problem is that I only get the first and last element and nothing more, my code is:

Answer 1

Other answers have told you why it plain doesn't work, I'm wonder why you're not just iterating until the null terminator?

void getcharacters(char *cad)
{
 char *i;
 for (i = cad; *i; i++) {
     printf("%c\n",*i);
 }
}