Count the number of occurrences of each letter in string

Question

How can I count the number of occurrences in c of each letter (ignoring case) in the string? So that it would print out letter: # number of occurences, I have c

Answer 1

Here is the C code with User Defined Function:

/* C Program to count the frequency of characters in a given String */

#include 
#include 

const char letters[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy";

void find_frequency(const char *string, int *count);

int main() {
    char string[100];
    int count[26] = { 0 };
    int i;

    printf("Input a string: ");
    if (!fgets(string, sizeof string, stdin))
        return 1;

    find_frequency(string, count);

    printf("Character Counts\n");

    for (i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
        printf("%c\t%d\n", letters[i], count[i]);
    }
    return 0;
}

void find_frequency(const char *string, int *count) {
    int i;
    for (i = 0; string[i] != '\0'; i++) {
        p = strchr(letters, string[i]);
        if (p != NULL) {
            count[p - letters]++;
        }
    }
}