Counting the number of zero in an integer - c

Question

The program would ask the user an integer input.
and it counts how many zero the int has.
constraints: use while loop
ex:
input: 2400
count: 2
now I have no problem in that part, only when the user would input a zero.
supposed it counts 1.
ex:
input 0
count: 1
but then the program returns count 0.
here's the code:
int main(){
int n, counter = 0;
printf("Enter the number: ");
scanf("%d", &n);
while(n != 0){
if(n % 10 == 0){
counter ++;
n=n/10;
}else{
break;
}
}
printf("%d", counter);
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Use functions.
int countZeroes(int x)
{
int result = !x; // if x == 0 then result = 1
while(x)
{
result += !(x % 10);
x /= 10;
}
return result;
}
int main(void)
{
printf("%d\n", countZeroes(0));
printf("%d\n", countZeroes(1000));
printf("%d\n", countZeroes(-202020));
}
https://godbolt.org/z/91hKr46eo

Answer 2

You have while(n != 0) this does so when you enter just 0 it doesn't run. So the counter that you have set to 0 at the beginning is still 0
Here is what I would have done :
int main()
{
int num, count = 0;
scanf("%d",&num);
if (num == 0) {
printf("1");
return 0;
}
while(num != 0) //do till num greater than 0
{
int mod = num % 10; //split last digit from number
num = num / 10; //divide num by 10. num /= 10 also a valid one
if(mod == 0) count ++;
}
printf("%d\n",count);
return 0;
}
Just don't forget to consider everything that can happen with a condition that you set
**Fixed it

Answer 3

A different version that prints the integer as a string, and looks for '0' characters in it. Tested.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void)
{
int input = 0;
int zeroes = 0;
char *foundpos, teststring[100];
scanf("%d", &input);
sprintf(teststring, "%d", input);
foundpos = strchr(teststring, '0');
while (foundpos != NULL) {
++zeroes;
foundpos = strchr(foundpos + 1, '0');
}
printf("%d contains %d zeroes", input, zeroes);
}

Answer 4

Just count the zero digits you get between \n chars.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int ndigs = 0, c;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
switch (c) {
case '0': ndigs++;
break;
case '\n': printf(" => %d zero digs", ndigs);
ndigs = 0;
break;
}
putchar(c);
}
}
sample output:
$ ./a.out
123001202010
123001202010 => 5 zero digs
^D
$ _
No need to convert digits to a number, to convert it back to decimal digits. You can improve the program counting digits until a nondigit is detected, then output. But there's no need to convert a decimal representation of a number (in base 10) to internal representation to then get the digits you have destroyed (in the conversion) back again to count them.

Answer 5

As earlier mentioned, the problem is with the loop:
while(n != 0){
if(n % 10 == 0){
counter ++;
n=n/10;
}else{
break;
}
}
It doesnt do anything in case n == 0. But replacing it with n > 0 is not a good solution because ints can be negative too.
You should use do{}while() construction instead, it will always do one iteration of loop no matter what condition you put there. Notice that no matter what you get as a number, it is still a number so you can do one iteration of loop either way.
Just do as follows:
do{
if(n % 10 == 0){
counter ++;
n=n/10;
}else{
break;
}
} while( n != 0 );
This should work(if i didnt mess up the braces/semicolumns).