Why does it print (null) instead of 5?

Question

I tried running this c code just to see what happens:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
char x="5"; //creating a string with 1 element
printf("Hello Universe! %s",x);
return 0;
}

Why does it print this:
Hello Universe! (null)

Answer 1

You want
char * x = "5";
%s expects a char pointer
Also
char x = "5";
Wouldn't really be valid as char will only hold 1 char and "5" is actually 2 due to the string null character it's actually "5\0" or
{ '5', '\0'}