getc in c

Question

if getc returns an integer value, then why is it returning the value that a user inputs.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

   printf("%c", getc(stdin));

   return(0);

}

Answer 1

It do return integer, which is ASCII value of given input( say c = 99 ,ascii value) but %c reads and converts back to characters corresponding to ASCII value.