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C program to copy one string to another and count copied characters

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C program to copy one string to another and count copied characters

Given a string and we have to copy it in another string, also find and print the total number of copied characters using C program.

Example:

    Input:
    String 1 (Input string): "This is a test string"

    Now, we will copy string 1 to the string 2
    Output:
    String 1: "This is a test string"
    String 2: "This is a test string"
    Total numbers of copied characters are: 21
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2022-05-03
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Program to copy one string to another string and find total number of copied character in C

#include <stdio.h>

//function to copy the string
int copy_string(char *target, char *source)
{
	//variable tp store length, it will also work
	//as loop counter
	int len=0;
	
	//loop to run from 0 (len=0) until NULL ('\0')
	//not found
	while(source[len] != '\0')
	{
		target[len] = source [len];
		len++;
	}
	//assign NULL to the target string
	target[len] = '\0';
	
	//return 'len'- that is number of copied characters
	return len;
}

//main code
int main()
{
	//declare and assign string1 to be copied
	char str1[]="This is a test string";
	//declare string 2 as target string
	char str2[30];
	//variable to store number of copied characters
	//that will be returned by the copy_string()
	int count;
	
	//calling the function
	count = copy_string(str2,str1);
	
	//printing values
	printf("Source string (str1): %s\n",str1);
	printf("Target string (str2): %s\n",str2);
	printf("Copied characters are: %d\n",count);
	
	return 0;	
}

Output

Source string (str1): This is a test string
Target string (str2): This is a test string
Copied characters are: 21

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