Strings Coding Questions in

C Programming

By
P Penchala Swamy
Write a program to show the difference between
scanf(), gets() fuctions to perform read/write
operations
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
char a[100];
printf("Enter string\n");
scanf("%s",a);
printf("String is %s\n",a);

printf("Enter string\n");
gets(a);
//fgets(a, sizeof a, stdin);
printf("output string is %s\n",a);
puts(a);
Write a program in C to find the length of a string
without using library functions
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int l = 0;
printf("enter Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
while (str[l] != '\0') {
l++;
}
printf("Length of the string is : %d\n\n", l - 1);
return 0;
}
Write a program in C to separate individual
characters from a string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int l = 0;
printf("enter Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
while (str[l] != '\0') {
printf("%c ", str[l]);
l++;
}
printf("Length of the string is : %d\n\n", l - 1);
return 0;
Write a program to print individual characters of
a string in reverse order.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int l, i;
printf("enter input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
l = strlen(str);
printf("The characters of the string in reverse are : \n");
for (i = l - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
printf("%c ", str[i]);
}
printf("\n");
}
Write a program in C to count the total number
of words in a string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int i, wrd;
printf("enter input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
i = 0;
wrd = 1;
while (str[i] != '\0') {
if (str[i] == ' ' || str[i] == '\n' || str[i] == '\t') {
wrd++;
}
i++;
}
printf("Total number of words in the string is : %d\n", wrd-1);
return 0;
Write a program in C to compare two strings
without using string library functions
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char str1[100], str2[100];
int i = 0;
printf("Enter the first string: ");
scanf("%s", str1);
printf("Enter the second string: ");
scanf("%s", str2);
while (str1[i] == str2[i] && str1[i] != '\0') {
i++;
}
if (str1[i] > str2[i]) {
printf("String 1 comes after String 2.\n");
} else if (str1[i] < str2[i]) {
printf("String 1 comes before String 2.\n");
} else {
printf("Both strings are the same.\n");
}
return 0;
}
 Write a program to count the total number of
alphabets, digits and special characters in a string.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int alp, digit, splch, i;
alp = digit = splch = i = 0;
printf("Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
while (str[i] != '\0') {
if ((str[i] >= 'a' && str[i] <= 'z') || (str[i] >= 'A' && str[i] <= 'Z')) {
alp++;
} else if (str[i] >= '0' && str[i] <= '9') {
digit++;
} else {
splch++;
}
i++;
}
Write a program in C to copy one string to
another string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str1[100], str2[100];
int i;
printf("Input the string : ");
fgets(str1, sizeof str1, stdin);
i = 0;
while (str1[i] != '\0') {
str2[i] = str1[i];
i++;
}
str2[i] ='\0';
printf("\nThe First string is : %s\n", str1);
printf("The Second string is : %s\n", str2);
printf("Number of characters copied : %d\n\n", i);
return 0;
}
Write a program in C to count the total number
of vowels or consonants in a string
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
char str[100];
int i, len, vowel, cons;
printf("Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
vowel = 0;
cons = 0;
len = strlen(str);
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
if (str[i] == 'a' || str[i] == 'e' || str[i] == 'i' || str[i] == 'o' || str[i] == 'u' || str[i] ==
'A' || str[i] == 'E' || str[i] == 'I' || str[i] == 'O' || str[i] == 'U') {
vowel++;
}
else if ((str[i] >= 'a' && str[i] <= 'z') || (str[i] >= 'A' && str[i] <= 'Z')) {
cons++;
}
}
Write a program in C to find Character frequency
in a string
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char str[1000], ch;
int count = 0;
printf("Enter a string: ");
fgets(str, sizeof(str), stdin);
printf("Enter a character to find its frequency: ");
scanf("%c", &ch);
for (int i = 0; str[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
if (ch == str[i])
++count;
}
printf("Frequency of %c = %d", ch, count);
return 0;
Write a C program to sort a string array in
ascending order.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char str[100], ch;
int i, j, l;
printf("Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
l = strlen(str);
for (i = 1; i < l; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < l - i; j++) {
if (str[j] > str[j + 1]) {
ch = str[j];
str[j] = str[j + 1];
str[j + 1] = ch;
}
}
}
printf("After sorting the string appears like : \n");
printf("%s\n\n", str);
return 0;
Write a program in C to extract a substring from
a given string.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char str[100], sstr[100];
int pos, l, c = 0;
printf("Input the string : ");
fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin);
printf("Input the position to start extraction :");
scanf("%d", &pos);
printf("Input the length of substring :");
scanf("%d", &l);
while (c < l) {
sstr[c] = str[pos + c - 1];
c++;
}
sstr[c] = '\0';
printf("The substring retrieved from the string is : \" %s\" \n\n", sstr);
return 0;
}