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+# Here are some simple programs for beginners.
+
+1. Simple Hello World Program.
+2. Frequency of a character in a string.
+3. How to find the length of a string
+4. Program to read a line from a file.
diff --git a/length of a  string b/length of a  string
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 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
 int main()
 {
-    char s[1000];
-    int i;
-    printf("Enter a string: ");
-    scanf("%s", s)
-    for(i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; ++i)
-    printf("Length of string: %d", i);
-    
+  char a[100];
+  int length;
+  printf("Enter a string to calculate its length\n");
+  gets(a);
+  // strlen function to find the length of the string
+  length = strlen(a);
+
+  printf("Length of the string = %d\n", length);
+
+  return 0;
 }