C Example for Beginners: C Program to Find the Frequency of Characters in a String

(C programming Example for Beginners)

C Program to Find the Frequency of Characters in a String

In this example, you will learn to find the frequency of a character in a string.


Find the Frequency of a Character


#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
    char str[1000], ch;
    int count = 0;

    printf("Enter a string: ");
    fgets(str, sizeof(str), stdin);

    printf("Enter a character to find its frequency: ");
    scanf("%c", &ch);

    for (int i = 0; str[i] != ''; ++i) {
        if (ch == str[i])
            ++count;
    }

    printf("Frequency of %c = %d", ch, count);
    return 0;
}

Output

Enter a string: This website is awesome.
Enter a character to find its frequency: e
Frequency of e = 4

In this program, the string entered by the user is stored in str.

Then, the user is asked to enter the character whose frequency is to be found. This is stored in variable ch.

Then, a for loop is used to iterate over characters of the string. In each iteration, if the character in the string is equal to the chcount is increased by 1.

Finally, the frequency stored in the count variable is printed.

 

C Example for Beginners: C Program to Find the Frequency of Characters in a String

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