Question

The C program below print the first and last character of 16 words strings:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

void main()
{
    char first, last;
    char *str = "abcdefghijklmnop";
    first = str[0];
    last = str[15];
    printf("%s", &first);
    printf("%s", &last);
}

The output I am seeking is a and p. But, when I run this code I get the output:

apa

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

below lines will bring correct result

printf("%c", first );
printf("%c", last );