Character input question

Hey guys, I was wondering if there was a way to scanf/getchar() a string of characters into a table ?
Am i shooting for the stars or is it a possibility ?
what I'm trying to do is basically have the user input 4 characters, that's pretty much all i need but when the user hits enter, the characters would be assigned to elements of a table...

it should be doable i guess...

it's part of a mastermind game I'm creating. the game is pretty much OK except for that question i ask.
In the program, the user has 6 attempts at cracking a 4 color randomly picked code. normal way of running would be, user inputs 4 characters for red green blue and yellow (r, v, b, j - ie: rrbj - repetitions allowed)
when user hits enter, program prints out the numbers of hit&miss colors... if any of course and will keep prompting to enter a new code till either the 6 retries are over or if the user guessed the code..

My code is pretty much fine except for when a user enters a code... he either has to do each character at a time or enter the same code 4 times... which is not satisfactory.
The program needs to read the 4 character string and put it in a table with a simple for loop.

Here's my code

#include 
#include 

#define NBCOLORS 4
#define NBTRIES 6

char readkey();
void createCode(char code[]);
int playGame(char code[]);

int main (void)
{
    char secretCode[NBCOLORS];
    createCode(secretCode);
    while(playGame(secretCode));
    return 0;
}


[B]// Character input/storage

char readkey() {
    fflush(stdin);
    char c = '\n';
    while (c == '\n' || c == ' ')
        c = getchar();
    return c;
}[/B]

void createCode(char code[])
{
    int i;
    srand(1810);

    /* create random code */
    for (i = 0; i < NBCOLORS; i++)
       switch(rand() % 4)
       {
           case 0: code[i] = 'r'; break;
           case 1: code[i] = 'b'; break;
           case 2: code[i] = 'v'; break;
           case 3: code[i] = 'j'; break;
       }  
}

int playGame(char code[]) {
    char codeCopy[NBCOLORS];
    int victory = 0;
    int i, j, k;
    char c = 0;                         /* character being read */
    
        
    for (i = 0; i < NBTRIES; i++) {
        int identical = 0;
        int present = 0;
        
        for (j = 0; j < NBCOLORS; j++)
            codeCopy[j] = code[j];
        
        printf("Votre coup (essai no %i): ", i+1);
        
        for (j = 0; j < NBCOLORS; j++) {
            c = readkey();
            if (codeCopy[j] == c) {
                codeCopy[j] = '#';
                identical++;
            }
            else {
                for(k = 0; k < NBCOLORS; k++)
                    if (codeCopy[k] == c) {
                        codeCopy[k] = '#';
                        present++;
                    }
            }
        }
        
        printf("Couleurs identiques: %i\n", identical);
        printf("Coleurs presentes: %i\n", present);
        
        if(identical == NBCOLORS) {
            printf("Bravo! Vous avez trouve notre sequence de couleurs\n");
            victory=1;
            break;
        }
    }
    
    if(!victory) {
        printf("Desole, la sequence de couleurs a deviner etait ");
        for (j = 0; j < NBCOLORS; j++)
            putchar(code[j]);
        putchar('\n');
    }
    
    while (c != 'o' && c != 'O' && c != 'n' && c != 'N') {
        fflush(stdin);
        printf("Voulez-vous jouer une autre partie? (O/N)?");
        c = readkey();
    }
    
    if (c == 'o' || c == 'O')
        return 1;
    return 0;
}

Thanks for any insight... this is puzzling me quite much