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Character Arrays

One dimensional Arrays


Strings
– Declaration
– Initialization
– Printing
– Reading
Examples
– Character Manipulation in strings
– String Manipulation
Arrays of strings (Two Dimensional Char Arrays)
– Declaration
– Initialization
– Printing
– Reading
– Coding Examples
Strings
• Strings in C are represented by arrays of characters
• End of the string is marked with a special character NULL.
• The corresponding escape sequence character is \0.
• C does not have string data type.

Declaration of strings:
char str[30];
char line[80];
String Initialization:
char str[9] = “I like C”;
same as
char str[9]={‘I’,‘ ‘,’l’,‘i’,’k’,’e’,‘ ‘,’C’,’\0’};

Q. Is there any difference between following Initialization?


char str[]=“MNIT”;
char str[4]= “MNIT”;

Ans: Yes, in second declaration there is no


null character
Printing Strings
char text[]=“C Programming”;
printf("%s\n",text);
printf("%10.5s\n",text);
printf("%-10.5s",text);

Output???
C Programming Formatting String Output: %w.ns
w is the width of the string
C Pro dot (.) character after w and n are optional
if present only n characters will be displayed and
C Pro  (w-n) leading spaces will be added before the string
 if only width of the string(i.e w) is specified &
 length of the string is less than the width specified then
the output will be right-justified with leading spaces.
 and Otherwise, no leading space is added
Reading a String (contd..)
Using scanf()
char text[30];
printf(“Enter a string: ”);
scanf(“%s”,text);
printf(“The string is : %s”,text);
Sample output:
Enter a string: hello
The string is: hello
-----------------------------------------
Enter a string: hello how are you
The string is: hello
Note: scanf() takes string without blank space
Reading a String (contd..)
char text[30];
printf(“Enter a string: ”);
scanf(“%[a-z]s”,text);
printf(“The string is : %s”,text);

Sample output:
Enter a string: hello
The string is: hello
Enter a string: hello123
The string is: hello
Single Line input
char text[80];
printf(“Enter a string: ”);
scanf(“%[^\n]s”,text);/*newline terminated string */
printf(“The string is : %s”,text);

Sample output:
Enter a string: hello how are you
The string is: hello how are you
Multi line Input
char text[180];
printf(“Enter a string terminate with ~: ”);
scanf(“%[^~]s”,text);
printf(“The string is : %s”,text);

Note: After ^ any character can be used to


terminate the input.
Sample output:
Enter a string terminate with ~: hello how are
you. ~
The string is: hello how are you.
Problem!!!
Dangling character
Input String using gets()
char str[200];
printf(“Enter a string :”);
gets(str);
printf(“The string is :%s”,str);

Output
Enter a string :C programming
The string is : C programming
Character Manipulation in the String
Example: Text without blank space

int main()
{ char s[80],ws[80];
int i,j;
printf(“Enter the text:\n”);
gets(s); /* reading text from user */
for(i=0,j=0; s[i]!=‘\0‘; i++)
{ if(s[i]!=‘ ‘)
ws[j++] = s[i];
}
ws[j]=‘\0’;

printf(“The text without blank space is:\n”);


puts(ws); /* printing text on monitor */
return;
}
Important Character functions in ctype.h

isdigit(c)/*Returns a nonzero if c is a digit*/

islower(c) /* Returns a nonzero if c is a


lower case alphabetic character */
isalpha(c)/*Returns a nonzero if c is an
alphabet*/
isspace(c) /*Returns a nonzero for blanks */
isupper(c) /*Returns a nonzero if c is capital
letter*/
toupper(c) /* Returns upper case of c */

tolower(c) /* Returns lower case of c */


String Manipulation functions in string.h

strcpy(s1,s2) /* copies s2 into s1 */

strcat(s1,s2) /* concatenates s2 to s1 */

strlen(s) /* returns the length of s */

strcmp(s1,s2)/*returns 0 if s1 and s2 are same


returns less then 0 if s1<s2
returns greater than 0 if s1>s2 */
Implementation of strlen()
int n = 0;
char text[100],c;
while((c = getchar())!=‘\n’&& n<99)
text[n++] = c;

text[n++]=‘\0’;
printf(“Length of text : %d”,n);
Implementation of strcat()
void main() /* s2 is concatenated after s1 */
{ char s1[100],s2[100];
int i = 0,j = 0;
printf("Enter first string\n");
scanf("%[^\n]",s1); getchar();
printf("Enter second string\n");
scanf("%[^\n]",s2);
while(s1[i++] != '\0'); i--;
while(s2[j] != '\0')
s1[i++] = s2[j++];
s1[i] = '\0';
printf("\n Final string is:%s",s1);
}
Palindrome problem: Algorithm Design

1. Read a string in str[0….n-1]


2. Initialize left = 0 and right = n-1
3. Repeat for left<right
3.1 str[left] != str[right] terminate with false
3.2 Increment left and decrement right
4. Terminate with true

Returns false
If str[left] != str[right] for any value of left>=0 and right<=n-1
Where left<right
Palindrome problem: Implementation

void main()
{ char str[80];
int left,right,i,len,flag = 1;
printf("Enter a string");
for(i = 0;(str[i] = getchar())!='\n';++i);
len = i-1;
for(left = 0,right = len; left < right; ++left,--right)
{ if(str[left]!= str[right])
{ flag = 0;
break;
}
}
if(flag)printf("\n String is palindrome");
else
printf("\n String is not a palindrome");
}
Exercise: Write equivalent while loop for the above.
Word counting Problem: Algorithm
Problem Statement: Count the number of words in text.
Assumption a word is separated by blank space except
last word which is separated by ‘\0’.
Algorithm Steps
1. Read a character array text[N]
2. Initialize count =0
3. Repeat while text[i]!=‘\0’
If text[i] = ‘ ‘ then Increment count by 1
4. Print the count
5. Return

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Word counting Problem: Implementation
void main()
{ char text[40];
int i = 0,count = 0;
printf("Enter a string:");
gets(text);
while(text[i]!='\0')
{
while(isspace(text[i]))
i++; /* Repeat till first non blank character */
if(text[i]!='\0')
{ count++;
while(!isspace(text[i])&& text[i]!='\0')
i++; /* Repeat till first blank character */

}
}
printf("The number of words in the string is %d",count);
}

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Home assignment Problem
1. Write a program to count the number of
characters and words in a text string.
2. Write a program to reverse a string.
3. Write a program which will read a line of text and
rewrite it in the alphabetical order.
4. Write a program to copy one string into another
string.
5. Write a program to replace a particular word by
another word in a given string. Both the words are
provided by the user at run time.

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