Use fgets to read string from standard input  #include <stdio.h>#include <string.h> int main(void){  char str[80];  int i;   printf("Enter a string: ");  fgets(str, 10, stdin);   /* remove newline, if present */  i = strlen(str)-1;  if( str[ i ] == '\n')       str[i] = '\0';   printf("This is your string: %s", str);   return 0;}

Get a string from stdin: how to use gets  #include <stdio.h> int main(){  char string [256];    printf ("Enter your address: ");    gets (string);    printf ("Your address is: %s\n",string);  return 0;} 

Read formatted data from string: how to use sscanf  #include <stdio.h> int main (){  char sentence[] = "This is a line.";  char str [20];  int i;   sscanf (sentence,"%s %*s %d",str,&i);    printf ("%s -> %d\n",str,i);    return 0;} 

Read string: A simple scanf and printf pair #include <stdio.h> int main(void){  char str[80];   printf("Enter a string: ");  scanf("%s", str);  printf(str);   return 0;} 

Get string from console and assign it to a char pointer #include <stdio.h> int main(void){  char *p, str[80];   printf("Enter a string: ");   p = gets(str);   if(p) /* if not null */     printf("%s %s", p, str);   return 0;}