luc069.c

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• Author — Amit Dutta
• Last updated — 08 Feb 2026
• License — MIT License (See the LICENSE file for details)

Problem Statement

Problem Statement

If the string "Alice in wonder land" is fed to the following scanf() statement, what will be the contents of arrays str1, str2, str3 and str4?

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

int main()
{
    char str1[20], str2[20], str3[20], str4[20];

    printf("Enter the string 'Alice in wonder land': ");
    /* scanf stops reading at the first whitespace character for %s */
    scanf("%s%s%s%s", str1, str2, str3, str4);

    printf("\nContents of arrays:\n");
    printf("str1: %s\n", str1);
    printf("str2: %s\n", str2);
    printf("str3: %s\n", str3);
    printf("str4: %s\n", str4);

    return 0;
}