Answer to Question #210037 in C for Kanan

Question

In online journal system, the user has to give detail information about their abstract of the manual script before upload of source document. The abstract submitted by the author should not more than 300 words. The journal system uses program to count the number of vowels, consonants, digits and symbols in a given paragraph. Write a C program to count the number of vowels, consonants, digits and symbols using pointers.

Runtime Input :

1=>see-programming.blogspot.com

Output :

No. of vowels: 8

No. of consonants: 17

No. of digits: 1

No. of symbols: 1

Others: 4

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>


void countVowelsConsonantsDigitsSymbols(char paragraph[],int* numberVowels,int* numberConsonants,int* numberDigits,int* numberSymbols,int* numberOthers){
	int i,j;
	for (i = 0; paragraph[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
		if (tolower(paragraph[i]) == 'a' || 
			tolower(paragraph[i]) == 'e' || 
			tolower(paragraph[i]) == 'i' ||
			tolower(paragraph[i]) == 'o' || 
			tolower(paragraph[i]) == 'u') {
				*numberVowels=*numberVowels+1;
		} else if ((tolower(paragraph[i]) >= 'a' && tolower(paragraph[i]) <= 'z')) {
				*numberConsonants=	*numberConsonants+1;
		} else if (paragraph[i] >= '0' && paragraph[i] <= '9') {
			*numberDigits=*numberDigits+1;
		} else if (paragraph[i] == '-'){
			*numberSymbols=*numberSymbols+1;
		}else{
			*numberOthers=*numberOthers+1;
		}
	}
}


void main( void){
	char paragraph[10000];
	int numberVowels=0;
	int numberConsonants=0;
	int numberDigits=0;
	int numberSymbols=0;
	int numberOthers=0;


	printf("Enter the paragraph: ");
	gets(paragraph);
	countVowelsConsonantsDigitsSymbols(paragraph,&numberVowels,&numberConsonants,&numberDigits,&numberSymbols,&numberOthers);


	printf("No. of vowels: %d\n",numberVowels);
	printf("No. of consonants: %d\n",numberConsonants);
	printf("No. of digits: %d\n",numberDigits);
	printf("No. of symbols: %d\n",numberSymbols);
	printf("Others: %d\n\n",numberOthers);


	getchar();
	getchar();
}