How to count/keep track of letters from file input in C?

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Hello, for the final part of my program I need to count how many letters appear throughout a pretty large input file. Opening the file, storing to an array, etc.. is all taken care of. I'm clueless on how to count each letter that occurs. I've read structures are the way to go, and others that arrays are best. I know I'd need to declare an array along the lines of:

char letters[26] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

but I'm clueless from here, thanks in advance for any help, tips and/or suggestions.

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Re: How to count/keep track of letters from file input in C?

An array of characters is a string, and therefore checking the various methods available for strings in c would probably be a good start. Google strlen and see if that's any help.

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Re: How to count/keep track of letters from file input in C?

Each character (letter, number, punctuation) has a numeric value. That value can be used as an index into an array of counters which you can increment for each character you read.

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