// This program calculates the length of a string
// without using strlen function

// Week 4 Lecture 8

#include <stdio.h>

// Define the size of the array = this is clearly going to cause some
// waste - one of the downfalls of arrays
#define MAX_LENGTH 124

int main(void) {

    // Declare our array to hold the string
    char word[MAX_LENGTH];
    int length = 0;

    printf("Type in a word: ");
    // Read in the string using fgets() function
    fgets(word, MAX_LENGTH, stdin);

    // Do some magic here to calculate:
    // How do we keep looping through the string, how do we 
    // know when the string has finished?
    int i = 0;
    while (word[i] != '\0') {
        length++;
        i++;
    }
    
    printf("There are %d characters in the word: %s\n", length, word);

    return 0;
}