C program to count the number of characters copied into string

In this tutorial, we are going to write a C program to copy one string into another and count the number of characters copied in C Programming with practical program code and step-by-step full complete explanation.

C Program to count the number of characters copied into a string.

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

void main()
{
    char string1[80], string2[80];
    int i;

    printf("Enter a stringn");
    printf("?");
    scanf("%s",string2);

    for(i=0;string2[i]!='';i++)
        string1[i]=string2[i];

    string1[i]='';

    printf("n");
    printf("%sn",string1);
    printf("Number of characters=%dn",i);
}

Output

Enter a string
? Manchester
Manchester
Number of characters=10

Enter a string
?westminister

Westiminister
Number of characters=11

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