Printing a string using a pointer in C-CodePudding

I am trying to print a string read into the program from the user.

I need to be able to print the string by using a pointer.

Here is a simplified version of my code.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    char string[100];
    printf("Enter a string: ");
    scanf("%s", string);
    char *pstring = &string;
    printf("The value of the pointer is: %s", *pstring);
    return 0;
}

But I am getting a segmentation fault

Can someone please explain why this is happening?

CodePudding user response：

You don't usually take an address of an array, it's either &string[0] or just string. In the printf() for %s you should pass a char pointer not a char (which is what *pstring is). It's a good idea to add a newline to the printf() format string as scanf() doesn't pass that along:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    char string[100];
    printf("Enter a string: ");
    scanf("