Question

must be done in C

Write a program that uses function strncmp to compare two strings input by the user. The program should input the number of characters to be compared, then display whether the first string is less than, equal to, or greater than the second string.

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main () {
char str1[15];
char str2[15];
int ret,n;
printf("Enter string 1");
gets(str1);
printf("Enter string 2");
gets(str2);
printf("Enter number of characters to compare");
scanf("%d",&n);
  
ret = strncmp(str1, str2, n);

if(ret < 0) {
printf("str1 is less than str2");
} else if(ret > 0) {
printf("str2 is less than str1");
} else {
printf("str1 is equal to str2");
}

return(0);
}

Enter string 1Hello Enter string 2Uday Enter number of characters to compare2 strl is less than str2 . .Program finished with exit code 0 Press ENTER to exit console