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program to count occurrences of a word in a string

program to count occurrences of a word in a string

Write a C program to count occurrences of a word in a given string using loop. How to count total occurrences of a given word in a string using loop in C programming.

    Input string from user, store it in some variable say str.
    Input word to be searched from user, store it in some other variable say word.
    Initialize a counter variable to store total word match count i.e. say count = 0.
    Run a loop from start of the string str to end.
    Inside loop for each character in word match the rest of characters with str. If a word match is found in case increment count = count + 1.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define maxsize 100 // Maximum string size

/* Function declaration */
int countOccurrences(char * str, char * toSearch);

int main()
{
    char str[maxsize];
    char toSearch[maxsize];
    int count;

    /* Input string and word from user */
    printf("Enter any string: ");
    gets(str);
    printf("Enter word to search occurrences: ");
    gets(toSearch);

    count = countOccurrences(str, toSearch);

    printf("Total occurrences of '%s': %d", toSearch, count);

    return 0;
}

/** Get, total number of occurrences of a word in a string */
int countOccurrences(char * str, char * toSearch)
{
    int x, j, found, count;
    int stringLen, searchLen;

    stringLen = strlen(str);      // length of string
    searchLen = strlen(toSearch); // length of word to be searched

    count = 0;

    for(x=0; x <= stringLen-searchLen; x++)
    {
        /* Match word with string */
        found = 1;
        for(j=0; j<searchLen; j++)
        {
            if(str[x + j] != toSearch[j])
            {
                found = 0;
                break;
            }
        }

        if(found == 1)
        {
            count++;
        }
    }

    return count;
}