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POWhy doesn't scanf need an ampersand for strings and also works fine in printf (in C)?
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I am learning about strings in C now. How come to use scanf to get a string you can do <pre><code>scanf("%s",str1); </code></pre> and for printf you can do <pre><code>printf("The string is %s\n", str1); </code></pre> I understand that for scanf it is because the string is just a character array which is a pointer, but for printf, how is it that you can just put the variable name just like you would for an int or float?
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