C Program to Separate Special Characters and Alphabets

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Introduction

In this post, I am going to write a c program to separate special characters and alphabets. Actually, I am also separating digits from the given string.

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I am assuming that you know what are alphabets, digits and special symbols. Before writing the program, let me show the expected output.

Expected Output

c program to separate special characters and alphabets
Output – c program to separate special characters and alphabets

For getting the above output, the following steps are very important to understand the program.

  1. Firstly, I am asking the user to enter a string.
  2. User can enter any string. Here, I have entered a mixed string to show you the complete output.
  3. Now, this string will be stored in the character array str.
  4. As I said above, this program will separate digits, alphabets and special symbols so I have taken three characters arrays for this i.e. d[100], al[100] and ss[100] respectively.
  5. I have also declared four integer variables. The variable i is the loop variable. The remaining variables like j, k and l are the counter variables for counting digits, alphabets and special symbols respectively.
  6. Using the while loop, each and every character is compared with the ASCII values of digits, alphabets and special symbols.
  7. For this, I have used an if-else statement to decide which is an alphabet, digit or special symbol.
  8. After deciding, I am storing that respective character in their respective array.

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I hope you have understood the above steps. Now, see the following program.

C Program to Separate Special Characters and Alphabets

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
    char str[100];
    char ss[100],al[100],d[100];
    char ch;
    int i=0,j=0,k=0,l=0;
    printf("Enter a string: ");
    gets(str);
    while((ch=str[i])!='\0')
    {
        if((ch>=48)&&(ch<=57))
        {
           d[j]=ch;
           j++;
        }
        else if(((ch>=65)&&(ch<=90))||((ch>=97)&&(ch<=122)))
        {
           al[k]=ch;
           k++;
        }
        else
        {
            if(ch==32)
            {
                i++;
                continue;
            }
            ss[l]=ch;
            l++;
        }
        i++;
    }
    if(j!=0)
    printf("Digits in the given string are : ");
    for(i=0;i<j;i++)
    {
        printf("%c ",d[i]);
    }
    if(k!=0)
    printf("\nAlphabets in the given string are : ");
    for(i=0;i<k;i++)
    {
        printf("%c ",al[i]);
    }
    if(l!=0)
    printf("\nSpecial Symbols in the given string are : ");
    for(i=0;i<l;i++)
    {
        printf("%c ",ss[i]);
    }
    printf("\n\nTotal number of digits are : %d",j);
    printf("\nTotal number of alphabets are : %d",k);
    printf("\nTotal number of special symbols are : %d",l);
    return 0;
}

I hope you have understood the above program. If you have any problem, then please feel free to contact me.

Thank you.

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