stringLength

Author: ivanbrennan

prog.10.2.c

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+// Function to count the number of characters in a string
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int stringLength (const char string[])
+{
+	int count = 0;
+
+	while ( string[count] != '\0' )
+		++count;
+
+	return count;
+}
+
+int main (void)
+{
+	int		stringLength (const char string[]);
+	const	char word1[] = { 'a', 's', 't', 'e', 'r', '\0' };
+	const	char word2[] = { 'a', 't', '\0' };
+	const	char word3[] = { 'a', 'w', 'e', '\0' };
+
+	printf ("%i    %i    %i\n", stringLength (word1),
+			stringLength (word2), stringLength (word3));
+
+	return 0;
+}