Consonants and Vowels Counter in C

A sample program that will ask the user to enter a work or a sentence and then the program will count how many consonants and vowels in a given word or sentence by the user. Take note I am using Turbo C 2.0 For DOS as my C compiler in this program.

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Sample Program Output

Program Listing

/* Consonants and Vowels Counter               */

/* Written By: Mr. Jake R. Pomperada, MAED-IT  */

/* Date  : November 25, 2015                   */

/* Tools : Turbo C 2.0  For DOS                */

#include <stdio.h>

#include <ctype.h>

#include <conio.h>

  main()

    {

char strings[200];

int vowels=0,consonants=0,i=0;

clrscr();

printf("Enter a word or sentence : ");

gets(strings);

while(strings[i] != '\0')

{

if (toupper(strings[i])=='A' || toupper(strings[i])=='E' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='I' ||  toupper(strings[i])=='O'||

toupper(strings[i])=='U')

vowels++;

  if (toupper(strings[i])=='B' || toupper(strings[i])=='C' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='D' || toupper(strings[i])=='F'||

toupper(strings[i])=='G' || toupper(strings[i])=='H' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='J' || toupper(strings[i])=='K'||

toupper(strings[i])=='L' || toupper(strings[i])=='M' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='N' || toupper(strings[i])=='P'||

toupper(strings[i])=='Q' || toupper(strings[i])=='R' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='S' || toupper(strings[i])=='T'||

toupper(strings[i])=='V' || toupper(strings[i])=='W' ||

toupper(strings[i])=='X' || toupper(strings[i])=='Y' || 

                toupper(strings[i])=='Z')

consonants++;

i++;

}

printf("\n\n");

printf("===== DISPLAY RESULTS =====");

printf("\n\n");

printf("Total Number of Vowels     : %d. ", vowels);

printf("\n\n");

printf("Total Number of Consonants : %d.   ",consonants);

getch();

}