title: Get length of string from scanf
body: <p>I'm getting a word from a user and I need to calculate it's length, but I can't seem to get <code>strlen()</code> or <code>sizeof()</code> to work for some reason.  What am I doing wrong here?</p>
  
  <pre><code>printf("Enter a word: ");
  char word;
  scanf("%c",&amp;word);
  printf("%i",strlen(word));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This seems really simple, but I can't print out the length of the string for the life of me.</p>