get first letter of string in c code example

Example 1: how to print the first character of a string in c

#include <stdio.h> 
#include<string.h> 
 
int main(void)  
{ 
	char c[100]; 
	scanf("%s",c); 
	/*strlen(c) gives total length of string . string index starts from 0 
	last index of character is strlen(c)-1*/ 
	int l = strlen(c)-1; 
	printf("%c %c",c[0],c[l]); 
	return 0; 
}

Example 2: c check first character of string

// c char str[](single string)
array[0]
// c char str[] (multiple string)
array[0][0]
// c++ std::stirng s;
s[0]

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