determining the char at a given location in a string in c

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Hello,

I apologize if this a really stupid question... I'm primarily a Java programmer and don't know the "ins and outs" of most other languages.

How can you determine the char of a specific location on a string?

For instance in java I could do this:

String asd = "kittens";
char jkl = asd.charAt(2);

// jkl is equal to 't'

is there a similar functionality in c? Thanks in advance!

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I apologize if this a really stupid question.

It is because your post title says string and your code says String. How you get a character at the nth position in each is completely different.

Edit: Oops. Maybe I should read the whole post, first.

With a String, you can use charAt() to get the nth character. With a string, it's simply the [n]th character. No manipulation needed.

char str[] = "This is a string":
char ltr = str[6];
ltr is 's'.

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Ah, thank you for your fast reply. That answered my question perfectly!

However now I have a new question... is there a difference between "string"s and "String"s?

I only thought there was one, "String". what is a "string"?

EDIT: nevermind, I should had done research before asking that. I found the answer online.