C gets() and strlen() function

Some important points about gets() and scanf() methods are:

• Both scanf() and gets() are used to take input from user.
• scanf() skips the input string after the first space is entered.
• gets() is used to input a complete sentence with any desired number of spaces until the Enter key is pressed.

Below is a program on gets() and strlen() function.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

int main()
{
    printf("\n\n\t\tStudytonight - Best place to learn\n\n\n");
    char a[100];
    int length;

    printf("\n\nEnter a string you wish to calculate the length of :   ");
    /*
        to take a single string (including spaces) 
        as input at a time
    */
    gets(a);
    /*
        Return the length of the string 
        or the number of characters in the string
    */
    length = strlen(a);

    printf("\n\nThe length of the input string is: %d\n\n", length);
    printf("\n\n\t\t\tCoding is Fun !\n\n\n");
    return 0;
}

Output:

C Program to find Length of a string without strlen() function

Below is a program to find the length of a string without the use of strlen() function.

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("\n\n\t\tStudytonight - Best place to learn\n\n\n");
    char aj[1000];
    int i = 0;

    printf("\n\nEnter the string: ");
    gets(aj);

    // \0 marks the end of the string
    for(i = 0; aj[i] != '\0' ;i++);   // updation is done after checking condition

    printf("\n\nThe length of the input string is :  %d", i);
    printf("\n\n\t\t\tCoding is Fun !\n\n\n");
    return 0;
}

Output:

Explanation:

You must be wondering why we have not added any statement to our for loop. It's because we are traversing our string until we encounter \0 and are doing i++ every time, hence we do not have to do anything else inside the loop, as the value of i will be equal to the length of the string by the time we encounter the \0 character.