Error: Assign string to the char variable in C | Common C program Errors

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2022-05-04

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If you assign a string to the character variable, it may cause a warning or error (in some of the compilers) or segmentation fault error occurs.

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2022-05-04

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Consider the code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
	
	char name="Amit shukla";
	printf("%s",name);
	
	return 0;
}

Output

Segmentation fault

How to fix?

Declare character array instead of char variable to assign string

 char name[]="Amit shukla";

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