How to get value from user in C Programming

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Sometimes in a program we need to get values from user, process the values entered by user and print / output the results of that processing on the screen. In order to get values from user we use ‘scanf’ function which is part of the stdio.h library. Following simple program explains how to use scanf function to get 2 numbers from user, sum the 2 entered by the user and print the sum of 2 numbers on the output screen.

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void){
// defining variables, computing their sum and printing sum on the screen
int number1; //defined variable named as number1 with data type integer
int number2; // defined variable named as number2 with data type integer
int sum; // defined variable named as sum with data type integer

printf("Please Enter First Integer Number:n");
scanf("%d", &number1); // getting value from user and assiging entered value to variable named as number1. %d defines that the value to be entered should be an integer
printf("n");
printf("Please Enter Second Integer Number:n");
scanf("%d", &number2); // getting variable value from user and assiging value to variable named as number2. %d defines that the value to be entered should be an integer
sum = number1 + number2; // summing two numbers and assigning result to variable named as sum

printf("Sum = %d", sum); // printing the value stored in variable named as sum. %d will hold the value of variable named as sum. Further %d says that I’ll hold the value of data type decimal integer

return 0;
}
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Output:

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