Saturday, July 7, 2007

Write a C program to implement the strlen() function.

The prototype of the strlen() function is...


size_t strlen(const char *string);


Here is some C code which implements the strlen() function....


int my_strlen(char *string)
{
int length;
for (length = 0; *string != '\0', string++)
{
length++;
}
return(length);
}




Also, see another example


int my_strlen(char *s)
{
char *p=s;

while(*p!='\0')
p++;

return(p-s);
}

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about when char* is NULL?

M Shoaib Sheikh said...

Try this out !

int mystrlen(char const *s)
{
if(*s==0) return 0;
return mystrlen(s+1)+1;
}

Manish Awasthi said...

what if the string contains unicode characters??

Unknown said...

IMHO the best implementation of strlen given here is the second one in the original post (with a check for null somewhere before the while loop). You may want to use const char* instead of char* though, and possibly const char * restrict -- it allows the compiler to do better optimizations, which is good.

C characters are not defined to be unicode characters -- even if you are using unicode characters (UTF-8) 0 still terminates a string.

If you are sing other unicode characters (UTF-16 or uTF-32) then simply, define strlen thus:

int strlen_utf16(const short * s);
int strlen_utf32(const int * s);

Otherwise use any strlen implementation.

I would -strongly- advice against using the recursive implementation unless you know that all strings are short. Large strings leads to a very large number of function calls, which is not just bad for perfomance but will eventually lead to crashing.

Ofcourse, you could go about redefining strings altogether, but if you do so, you shouldn't be asking here.

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