#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  char word[] = "the";
  printf("%s\n", word);
  return 0;
}

this is the c code to save the string "the" in a character array "word", print out the character array "word" with a new line, and to exit with an exit code of 0. notice how it does not contain the word "the" other than in the string.