Different output in C

[pravi]

Why is the output different in C?

<#include
#include
void main()
{ clrscr();
char a[3]="lk";
printf("%c",a[3]);
getch();
}>

Instead of getting lk as output, I get the output as angstrom(A^0). I don't understand how I get this.Please help me. Thanks.

[mutexe]

why are you trying to force a string into a char?

[jlb]

Why are you trying to print a value outside the bounds of your array? You have an array size of 3 so trying to access array[3] would be undefined, the largest allowable index is 2.

[mutexe]

damn i missed that :)

[AbstractionAnon]

I think you both missed the point. The OP es expecting "lk" as output, which means he should be outputting a as a C-string, not a char.

@OP: %c prints only a single character.
What I believe you want is to print a as a C-string.

printf ("%s", a);

lk

BTW, main should always return an int.