How to find the length of a string using strlen() in C

A tutorial for finding the length of a string using strlen in C - language

The strlen() function counts the number of characters in a given string and returns the long unsigned integer value.
It is defined in C standard library, within <string.h> header file.

1char proudToBeAnIndian[] = "East or West INDIA is best";
2strlen(proudToBeAnIndian);

It stops counting when the null character is encounter. Because in C, null character is considered as the end of the string.

Working example:

1#include <string.h>
2#include <stdio.h>
3
4int main()
5{
6    char country[] = "India", title[] = "MeshWorld";
7
8    printf("\n Length of title without null character: %zu", strlen(title));
9    printf("\n Length of title with null character: %zu", sizeof(title));
10
11    printf("\n Length of country without null character: %zu", strlen(country));
12    printf("\n Length of country with null character: %zu", sizeof(country));
13
14    return 0;
15}

Output:

1Length of title without null character: 9
2Length of title with null character: 10
3Length of country without null character: 5
4Length of country with null character: 6

Note that the strlen() function doesn’t count for the null character \0 whereas sizeof() function does.

How to find the length of a string using strlen() in C

Working example:

Output:

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