C Exercises: Copy a given string into another and count the number of characters copied

C Basic Declarations and Expressions: Exercise-71 with Solution

Write a C program to copy a given string into another and count the number of characters copied.

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Sample Solution:

C Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#define N 10
int main()
{
char str1[80], str2[80];
int i;
printf("Input a string");
scanf("%s", str2);
for(i=0; str2[i]!='\0'; i++)
str1[i]=str2[i];
str1[i]='\0';
printf("\n");
printf("Original string: %s", str1);
printf("\nNumber of characters = %d\n", i);
return 0;
}

Sample Output:

Input a string
Original string: w3resource
Number of characters = 10

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