How to find a string in an array of strings in C
main.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
char arr[3][100] = {"apple", "orange", "programmer"};
char input[100];
printf("Input a word: ");
fgets(input, 100, stdin);
input[strlen(input) - 1] = 0;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < strlen(input); i++) {
input[i] = tolower(input[i]);
}
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
if (strcmp(arr[i], input) == 0) {
printf("Found input string at index %d\n", i);
break;
}
}
if (i >= 3) {
printf("The input string was not found\n");
}
printf("Value of i is %d\n", i);
return 0;
}
