Printing a question mark after a loop [closed] - c

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Trying to figure out how to print the question mark as so: user inputs: "apple" and then the string gets stored in an array and gets printed like this : "apple?" here is my code:
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char a[23];
int i=0;
printf("enter a single english word: ");
while( (a[i++]=getchar()) != '\n' && i < 23){
a[i] = '\0';
i = 0;
}
while(a[i] != '\0'){
printf("%c",a[i++]);
}
printf("?");
return 0;
}

Answer 1

You are resetting i after each character read. That is effectively making you erase whatever was stored. you need to move i = 0; from inside the first while loop to just after it.

Answer 2

The code you have inside the first while loop should be done after the loop is done. You do all the work of the loop in the while() header. The loop body was resetting i back to 0 each time, so you were repeatedly overwriting the first character of a.
while( (a[i++]=getchar()) != '\n' && i < 23){
}
a[i] = '\0';
i = 0;

Answer 3

First of all, your input loop is incorrect. It should be like so:
while( (a[i++]=getchar()) != '\n' && i < 23) {}
a[i] = '\0';
As the comments to your question say above, you are resetting the pointer index after each character is read, therefore reading character 0 of the array every time. You should do this after the loop.
Also, because a is just a string, you should be able to just print it like this (without the loop):
printf("%s?", a);
Final Program:
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char a[23];
int i=0;
printf("enter a single english word: ");
while( (a[i++]=getchar()) != '\n' && i < 23) {}
a[i] = '\0';
printf("%s?",a);
return 0;
}

Answer 4

The follwoing logic works:
char a[23];
int i=0,j=0;
printf("enter a single english word: ");
To scan the input into an array :
for(a[i]=getchar(); (a[i]!='\n') && (i<23) ; i++)
;
And finally printing :
for(j=0;j<i;j++)
putchar(a[j]);
Hence the program :
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char a[23];
int i=0,j=0;
printf("enter a single english word: ");
for(a[i]=getchar(); (a[i]!='\n') && (i<23) ; i++)
;
for(j=0;j<i;j++)
putchar(a[j]);
printf("?");
return 0;
}