Of course there is. Like dave and prelude saud you have to use the char* type.
e.g

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char *getSomeString(void);

int main(void)
{
    char mainString[strlen(getSomeString()) + 1];
    strcpy(mainString,getSomeString());
    printf("%s",mainString);
    getchar();
}

char *getSomeString(void)
{
    return "Some String";
}

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> char *getSomeString(void); int main(void) { char mainString[strlen(getSomeString()) + 1]; strcpy(mainString,getSomeString()); printf("%s",mainString); getchar(); } char *getSomeString(void) { return "Some String"; }

Now I think I did the printf right I am a C++ man

C has a special shorthand for initializing strings: Surround the string with double quotes to simplify initialization...

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char name[] = "Sam";

char name[] = "Sam";

The dimension of name is 4 because C allocates a place for the '\0' character that ends the string.