prompt for a number of characters

Question

Is it possible to prompt for a specific number of characters?

Answer 1

char name[100];
scanf("%10s", name); //the "10" means ten (max)characters
printf("%s", name);

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/scanf/

Answer 2

I didn't get the question either sorry

Answer 3

Elaborate more please, an example?

Answer 4

Sht sorry unread the your post and I thought you meant py, sont know c sorry my bad