How to get the nth character of a string in C

In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the nth character of a string in C.

In C language, strings are the array of characters, where the index of the first character is 0, the second character is 1 etc.

Getting the nth character

To access the nth character of a string in C, we can use the square brackets [] notation by passing the character index.

Here is an example, that gets the first character G from the following string:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  char name[5] = "Gowtham";
  char firstCharacter = name[0];
  printf("First Character is : %c", firstCharacter);
}

Output:

"G"

We can access the other characters of a string like this:

char secondCharacter = name[1];

char thirdCharacter = name[2]