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Unit -4
Strings

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Contents

1. Strings Introduction, Operations on strings- finding length of a

string, converting characters of a string into uppercase and
lowercase, Concatenating two strings, appending a string to another
string, comparing two string, reversing a string. String and character
Built in functions.
2. Functions Introduction, Using functions, Function
declaration/function prototype, Function definition, Function call,
Return statement

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• A string is nothing but the collection of the individual array elements

or characters.
• String is enclosed within Double quotes.
• “programming" is a example of String.
• Each Character Occupy 1 byte of Memory.
• Size of “programming“ = 11 bytes
• String is always Terminated with NULL Character (‘\0′).
• char word[20] = “‘p’ , ‘r’ , ‘o’ , ‘g’ , ‘r’ , ‘a’ , ‘m’ , ‘m’ , ‘I’ , ‘n’ , ‘g’ ,
‘\0’”
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NULL Character Go, change the world

• NULL Character is also known as string terminating character.

• It is represented by “\0”.
• NULL Character is having ASCII value 0
• NULL terminates a string, but isn’t part of it
• important for strlen() – length doesn’t include the NULL

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Declaration of a string Go, change the world
• Since we cannot declare string using String Data Type, instead of which
we use array of type “char” to create String.

Syntax :

• char String_Variable_name [ SIZE ] ;

Examples :

• char city[30];

• char name[20];

• char message[50]; 5
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•String / Character Array Variable name should be legal C Identifier.

•String Variable must have Size specified.
•char city[];
•Above Statement will cause compile time error.
•Do not use String as data type because String data type is included in later
languages such as C++ / Java. C does not support String data type
•When you are using string for other purpose than accepting and printing data
then you must include following header file in your code– #include<string.h>

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Initializing String (Character Array) Go, change the world
• Process of Assigning some legal default data to String is Called Initialization
of String.
•A string can be initialized in different ways. We will explain this with the help
of an example.
• Below is an example to declare a string with name as str and initialize it with
“HelloWorld”.
1. char str[] = “HelloWorld";
2.char str[50] = “HelloWorld";
3.char str[] = {‘H','e',’l',’l',’o',’W','o','r',’l',’d','\0'};
4.char str[11] = {‘H','e',’l',’l',’o',’W','o','r',’l',’d','\0'}; 8
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#include <stdio.h>

int main () {

char greeting[6] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'};

printf("Greeting message: %s\n", greeting );
return 0; }

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −
Greeting message: Hello

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Write a program to read and print the names of n students in the

class

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• int puts(const char *s); Here the constant modifier is used to assure the
user that the function will not modify the contents pointed to by the
source pointer. Note that the address of the pointer is passed to the
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Function Purpose Example Output

Strcpy(); Makes a copy of a string strcpy(s1, “Hi”); Copies “Hi” to ‘s1’

variable
Strcat(); Appends a string to the strcat(“Work”, “Hard”); Prints “WorkHard”
end of another string

Strcmp(); Compare two strings strcmp(“hi”, “bye”); Returns -1.

alphabetically
Strlen(); Returns the number of strlen(“Hi”); Returns 2.
characters in a string

Strrev(); reverses a given string Strrev(“Hello”); olleH

Strlwr(); Converts string to Strlwr(“HELLO”); hello
lowercase
Strupr(); Converts string to Strupr(“hello”); HELLO
uppercase
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• strcpy( ) function copies contents of one string into another string.

• Syntax : strcpy (destination_string , source_string );

• Example:-strcpy ( str1, str2) – It copies contents of str2 into str1.

• strcpy ( str2, str1) – It copies contents of str1 into str2.

• If destination string length is less than source string, entire source string value won’t be
copied into destination string. For example, consider destination string length is 20 and
source string length is 30. Then, only 20 characters from source string will be
copied into destination string and remaining 10 characters won’t be copied and will
be truncated.
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• strncat( ) function in C language concatenates (appends) portion of one string at the end of
another string.

• Syntax : strncat ( destination_string , source_string, size);

• Example:-strncat ( str2, str1, 3 ); – First 3 characters of str1 is concatenated at the end of

str2.

• As you know, each string in C is ended up with null character (‘\0’).

• In strncat( ) operation, null character of destination string is overwritten by source string’s

first character and null character is added at the end of new destination string which is
created after strncat( ) operation.
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strcmp( ) function in C compares two given strings and returns zero if they are same.

If length of string1 < string2, it returns < 0 value that is -1.

✔ If length of string1 > string2, it returns > 0 value that is 1

✔ If length of string1 = string2 it returns 0.

• Syntax : strcmp (str1 , str2 );strcmp( ) function is case sensitive. i.e, “A” and “a” are
treated as different characters.

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• strncat( ) function in C language concatenates (appends) portion of one string at the end of
another string.

• Syntax : strncat ( destination_string , source_string, size);

• Example:-strncat ( str2, str1, 3 ); – First 3 characters of str1 is concatenated at the end of

str2.

• As you know, each string in C is ended up with null character (‘\0’).

• In strncat( ) operation, null character of destination string is overwritten by source string’s

first character and null character is added at the end of new destination string which is
created after strncat( ) operation.
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•strlen( ) function in C gives the length of the given

string.

•Syntax : strlen(str);

•strlen( ) function counts the number of characters in a given

string and returns the integer value.

•It stops counting the character when null character is found. Because,
null character indicates the end of the string in C.

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INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING (22ES14A)

UNIT IV
Functions
(User Defined Functions)
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FUNCTIONS

A function in C language is a block of code that performs a specific task.

It has a name and it is reusable i.e. it can be executed from as many different parts in a C
Program as required.

It also optionally returns a value to the calling program.

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Properties of C Functions:
Every function has a unique name. This name is used to call function from “main()” function.
A function can be called from within another function.
A function is independent and it can perform its task without intervention from or interfering
with other parts of the program.
A function performs a specific task. A task is a distinct job that your program must perform as
a part of its overall operation, such as adding two or more integer, sorting an array into
numerical order, or calculating a cube root etc.
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Properties of C Functions:

A function returns a value to the calling program.

This is optional and depends upon the task your function is going to accomplish.

Suppose you want to just show few lines through function then it is not necessary to return a value.

But if you are calculating area of rectangle and wanted to use result somewhere in program then you
have to send back (return) value to the calling function.
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Types of functions in C

1. void function(void)

2. void function(int)

3. int function(void)

4. int function(int)
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Type-1

void function(void)
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Type-1: void function(void)

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Type-1: void function(void)

#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>
void rvce(void); //function declaration
void main()
{
clrscr();
rvce(); //function call
getch();
}
void rvce(void) //function definition
{
printf(”rvce");
}
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Output:
Rvce

We can call a function for more than once in main.

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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>
void rvce(void);

void main()
{
clrscr();

rvce();
rvce();
getch();
}
void rvce(void)
{
printf(”rvce");
}
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Type-1: void function(void)

#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>
void rvce(void); //function declaration
void main()
{
clrscr();
rvce(); //function call
getch();
}
void rvce(void) //function definition
{
printf(”rvce");
}
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Output:
rvce rvce

We can build/call more than one functions in our program.

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#include<stdio.h>
void rvce(void);
void college(void);
void main()
{
clrscr();
rvce();
college();
}
void rvce(void)
{
printf(”rvce");
}
void college (void)
{
printf(“college is rvce");
}
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Output
rvce
college is rvce
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Type-2

void function(int)
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void square(int);

void main()
{
clrscr();

square(5);

getch();
}

void square(int x)
{
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 Output
Square is 25

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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void table(int);

void main()
{
clrscr();

table(5);

getch();
}

void table(int x)
{
for(int a=1;a<=10;a++)
printf("%d*%d=%d\n",a,x,a*x);
}
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Output

1*5=5
2*5=10
3*5=15
4*5=20 We can pass more than one arguments to a function, each
5*5=25
6*5=30 can have different type/same type.
7*5=35
8*5=40
9*5=45
10*5=50
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void add(int, int);

void main()
{
clrscr();

add(5, 7);

getch();
}

void add(int x, int y)

{
printf(“Addition is %d",x+y);
}
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Output

Addition is 12
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Write a program to generate a loop between two numbers.(Use functions to

achieve the task)
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

Void makeloop(int, int);

void main()
{
clrscr();

makeloop (2, 15);

getch();
}

void makeloop (int x, int y)

{
for(int a=x; a<=y; a++)
printf(“%d,”, a);
}
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Output

2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
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Edit same program, get two numbers input from user, then
make a loop between these numbers.

Ex:
Please input two numbers: 5 20

5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

Void makeloop(int, int);

void main()
{
clrscr();
int start, end

printf(“Plzz input two numbers:”);

scanf(“%d%d”, start, end);

makeloop (start, end);

getch();
}

void makeloop (int x, int y)

{
for(int a=x; a<=y; a++)
printf(“%d,”, a);
}
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Type-3

int function(void)
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

int sum(void);

void main()
{
clrscr();
int a;

a=sum();
printf(“Sum is %d”, a);
getch();
}
int sum(void)
{
int x=2, y=3, z;
z=x+y;

return(z);
}
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

int sum(void);

void main()
{
clrscr();
int a;

a=sum();
printf(“Sum is %d”, a);
getch();

int sum(void)
{
int x=2, y=3, z;
z=x+y;

return(z);
}
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Return Keyword
In functions, where we return any value, we usually use a keyword
“return”, and the value, which is to be returned is written inside braces,
shown after return.
Example: return(z);
The above statement will pass the value of z to the left side variable of
calling function.
ie: a=sum();
Hence the value in z, which is 5 in our program is passed to a.
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Type-4
Returns a value.

int function(int)

Passes the argument(s).

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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

int sum(int, int);

void main()
{
clrscr();
int a;

a=sum(2,3);
printf(“Sum is %d”, a);
getch();

int sum(int x, int y)

{

z=x+y;

return(z);
}
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#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>
int sum(int, int);

void main()
{
clrscr();
int a;

a=sum(2,3);
printf(“Sum is %d”, a);
getch();

int sum(int x, int y)

{

z=x+y;
return(z);
}
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End of the Functions in Unit - 4