Need some help here please!

[TotalMax]

Can someone explain to me, what is wrong about this code:

char astring[10];
int i = 0;
/* Using scanf isn't really the best way to do this; we'll talk about that
in the next tutorial, on strings */
scanf( "%s", astring );
for ( i = 0; i < 10; ++i )
{
if ( astring[i] == 'a' )
{
printf( "You entered an a!n" );
}
}

I am going wrong at a couple points, I just don't understand the errors...

And could someone please tell me where exactely a syntax goes, or what a syntax is?

[hanst99]

It would really help if you posted the compiler errors, we are no magicians. The code is ok but it doesn't work if you didn't include cstdio at the top.

[TotalMax]

line 5: error: expected initializer before 'char'
first error is line 9: Error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token
line 11: error: expected unqualified-id before 'for'
line 11: error:expected constructor, destructor, or typ conversion before '<' token
line 11: error: expected unqualified-id before '++' token