Question

ow do you check if a string starts with a certain character in c programing language? For example if a user puts in a word like cake how od i check if that word starts with c?

Answer 1

In c language, the strings are stored as character arrrays , the first character is stored at index 0 of the given string name,

for example, the string name is word[20] of size 20 , the first character is at word[0].

It is compared as

if(word[0]=='c'

if the word starts with c, then the condition is true otherwise the condition is false

Example program

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

char word[ ]="cake";

if(word[0]=='c')

printf("The word begins with character c");

else

printf("The word does not begins with character c");

}