C program to find the length of a string without using library function

C program to find the length of a string without using library function - Source code

void main()
{
    char string[500];
    int i, length = 0;
 
    printf("Enter a string \n");
    gets(string);
    /*  keep going through each character of the string till its end */
    for (i = 0; string[i] != '\0'; i++)
    {
        length++;
    }
    printf("The length of %s = %d\n", string, length);
}

Program Output

Case 1:

Enter a string
compscibits
The length of compscibits = 11


Case 2:

Enter a string
C program to find transpose of a matrix
The length of C program to find transpose of a matrix = 39

Program Explanation

1. The program accepted the string from the user using the gets function and stored it in character array. The maximum size of array is declared as 500. Strings in C are treated as character arrays.

2. An integer variable length is declared and initialize to 0.

3. Starting with first index of array[0], the whole string is traversed until it encounters NULL.

4. Variable length is increased by one with every loop iteration and printed at last.

5. Here note that if you enter a sentence instead of string, the white spaces will also be counted as the length of the string.