C Program to Count the Occurrence of Each Character in String

This C Program counts the number of occurrence of each character ignoring the case and prints them.

Here is a source code of the C program to count the number of occurrence of each character in a string ignoring their case and also prints them. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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/*
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 * C Program to Count the Number of Occurrence of

 * each Character Ignoring the Case of Alphabets

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 * & Display them
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 */
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <string.h>
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#include <ctype.h>
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struct detail
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{
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    char c;
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    int freq;
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};
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int main()
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{
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    struct detail s[26];
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    char string[100], c;
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    int i = 0, index;
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    for (i = 0; i < 26; i++)
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    {
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       s[i].c = i + 'a';
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       s[i].freq = 0;
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    }
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    printf("Enter string: ");
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    i = 0;
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    do
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    {
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        fflush(stdin);
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        c = getchar();
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        string[i++] = c;
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        if (c == '\n')
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        {
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            break;
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        }
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        c = tolower(c);
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        index = c - 'a';
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        s[index].freq++;
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    } while (1);
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    string[i - 1] = '\0';
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    printf("The string entered is: %s\n", string);

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    printf("*************************\nCharacter\tFrequency\n*************************\n");

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    for (i = 0; i < 26; i++)
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    {
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        if (s[i].freq)
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        {
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            printf("     %c\t\t   %d\n", s[i].c, s[i].freq);

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        }
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    }
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    return 0;
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}
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$ cc allcharfreq.c
$ ./a.out
Enter string: A quIck brOwn fox JumpEd over a lazy dOg
The string entered is: A quIck brOwn fox JumpEd over a lazy dOg
*************************
Character	Frequency
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     a		   3
     b		   1
     c		   1
     d		   2
     e		   2
     f		   1
     g		   1
     i		   1
     j		   1
     k		   1
     l		   1
     m		   1
     n		   1
     o		   4
     p		   1
     q		   1
     r		   2
     u		   2
     v		   1
     w		   1
     x		   1
     y		   1
     z		   1

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