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Practical C Programming

You're reading from   Practical C Programming Solutions for modern C developers to create efficient and well-structured programs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641108
Length 616 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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B. M. Harwani B. M. Harwani
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Preface 1. Working with Arrays 2. Managing Strings FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Functions 4. Preprocessing and Compilation 5. Deep Dive into Pointers 6. File Handling 7. Implementing Concurrency 8. Networking and Inter-Process Communication 9. Sorting and Searching 10. Working with Graphs 11. Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms 12. Creativity with Graphics 13. Using MySQL Database 14. General-Purpose Utilities 15. Improving the Performance of Your Code 16. Low-Level Programming 17. Embedded Software and IoT 18. Applying Security in Coding 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Counting vowels and consonants in a sentence

In this recipe, you will learn how to count the number of vowels and consonants in an entered sentence. The vowels are a, e, i, o, and u, and the rest of the letters are consonants. We will use ASCII values to identify the letters and their casing:

Figure 2.11

The blank spaces, numbers, special characters, and symbols will simply be ignored. 

How to do it…

  1. Create a string array called str to input your sentence. As usual, the last character will be a null character:
char str[255];
  1. Define two variables, ctrV and ctrC:
int  ctrV,ctrC;
  1. Prompt the user to enter a sentence of your choice:
printf("Enter a sentence: &quot...
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