Question

I’m having this problem.

char buffer[100];
buffer[0] = "\n";

For some reason, the following statement is true

buffer[0] == 'T'

When it should be the “\n” ascii. Why?

Answer 1

Try *buffer[0] = '\n'. I think that would give you the desired result, as it is char you are assigning not string. For string use double quotes and for char single quote.

As rightly pointed in the comment buffer[0] is char pointer, so first it needs to be allocated memory too. calloc would be a better choice here as it is going to assign default 0 values whereas malloc will just allocate space having garbage values.