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A lot of new C programmers have trouble with scanf(). So I'm going to show you how to do it

The main reason beginners have trouble is scanf works like a pointer so you have to point to what your getting input for

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
   int myvariable;

   printf("Enter a number:");
   scanf("%d",&myvariable);
   printf("%d",myvariable);
   
   return 0;
}

See when we used scanf we first declared what the variables type was
"%d" for int ,"%f" for float ,%e for double ,"%c" for char , "%s" for strings.

Then in the second part we have to use & like in a pointer to point to the variable instead of just getting its value Remember without & your program will likely crash

For handling strings with space and in files use fgets Here is a link to a tutorial on using it User Input: Strings and Numbers [C]