C program prints out wrong values

Question

I made a simple code to scan for user input and print it out. It only outputs the first character if its a string an gives me wrong values if its integers. The code is written in C. I'm using codeblocks on ubuntu.

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

int main()
{   char name;
    int age;
    printf("Enter your name: 
");
    scanf("%c", &name);
    printf("Enter your age: 
");
    scanf("%d", &age);
    printf("Your name is %c and your age is %d", &name, &age);
    return 0;
}

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65651280/c-program-prints-out-wrong-values

Answer 1

you declared name as char, that can hold only 1 character, generally any name is more than 1 character, so what you need is an array char name[50], and use %s for reading it.

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

int main()
{   char name[50] = {0};
    int age;
    printf("Enter your name: 
");
    scanf("%49s", name);
    printf("Enter your age: 
");
    scanf("%d", &age);
    printf("Your name is %s and your age is %d", name, age);
    return 0;
}

& prints the address of the variables, you just need to use only variable names in printf

Collect the return value of scanf to check correct number of items are read