why can't I input a character with scanf

Question

why is this not working? im new to C... the scanf function works just fine with other data types, its just the char thats not giving me the option to input a character

char grade;
printf("Enter your grade: ");
scanf("%c", &grade);
printf("Your grade is %c", grade);

Answer 1

It seems before entering the character there are inputs of other objects in your original program.

In this case you need to write

scanf(" %c", &grade);

Pay attention to the blank before the conversion specifier %c. It allows to skip white space characters.