C Program to Find the First Capital Letter in a String using Recursion

This is a C Program to find the first capital letter in a string using recursion.

The following C program, using recursion, finds the first capital letter that exists in a string.

We have included ctype.h in order to make use of “int isupper(char);” function that’s defined inside the ctype.h headerfile. The isupper finction returns 1 if the passed character is an uppercase and returns 0 is the passed character is a lowercase.

Here is the source code of the C program to find the first capital letter in a string using recursion. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

/*
 * C Program to find the first capital letter in a string using 
 * Recursion
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
 
char caps_check(char *);
 
int main()
{
    char string[20], letter;
 
    printf("Enter a string to find it's first capital letter: ");
    scanf("%s", string);
    letter = caps_check(string);
    if (letter == 0)
    {
        printf("No capital letter is present in %s.\n", string);
    }
    else
    {
        printf("The first capital letter in %s is %c.\n", string, letter);    }
        return 0;
    }
    char caps_check(char *string)
    {
        static int i = 0;
        if (i < strlen(string))
        {
            if (isupper(string[i]))
            {
                return string[i];
            }
            else
            {
                i = i + 1;
                return caps_check(string);
            }
        }
        else return 0;
    }

In this C program, library function defined in < ctype.h > header file is used to compute mathematical functions. We are reading a string using string[] array variable.

The caps_check() function is used to find the first capital letter in a string using Recursion. Nested if else condition statement is used to check the value of ‘i’ variable is less than the length of the string. If the condition is true then execute the statement.

Another if condition statement is used to check the character is an uppercase using isupper() function. If the condition is true then return the value 1. Otherwise, if the condition is false, then execute else statement and return the value 0.

If else condition statement is used to check the value of the ‘length’ variable is equal to 0. If the condition is true then execute the statement and print no capital letter is present in the string. Otherwise, if the condition is false, then execute the else condition statement and print the statement as the first capital letter in the given string.

 
$ cc pgm32.c
$ a.out
Enter a string to find it's first capital letter: iloveC
The first capital letter in iloveC is C.

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