Messing with Character Arrays in C - c

Question

Can someone advise why the loop in the main dies after the fifth iteration never completing
it's intended goal of reducing the character array down to 1 final element? I've gotten it this
far and am completely consumed as their should be 11 iterations as returned by the call
size_t strlen( char const *str )
{
int length = 0;
while (*str++ !='\0')
{
length += 1;
}
return length;
}
void abracadabra( char *word )
{
int i, c;
int len = strlen(word)-1;
for (i = 0; i <= len; i++)
{
putchar(*word);
putchar(' ');
*(word++);
}
}
int main()
{
char word[250];
int i, j;
printf ("enter your word:\n");
scanf ("%[^\n]s", &word);
for (i = 0; i <= strlen(word)-1; i++)
{
abracadabra(word);
putchar('\0');
printf("\n");
for (j = 0; j <= i; j++)
{
putchar('\0');
}
word[strlen(word) - 1] = '\0';
}
word[strlen(word)-1] = '\0';
printf("\n");
system("pause");
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Each time you execute the outer for loop in main the size of the string decreases by 1. The counter i is also increasing by 1 each time. This causes you to run the loop half of the times that you intend to.
int size = strlen(word);
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
\\same inner code
}
Subbing the above code for the outer for loop in main resolves the issue.

Answer 2

The is mistake in using the variable i and strlen in for loop. i is keep increasing and word length is decreasing. So in the mid, loop is terminated due to i>strlen (word)
int main()
{
char word[250];
int i, j;
printf ("enter your word:\n");
scanf ("%[^\n]s", &word);
// for (i = 0; i <= strlen(word)-1; i++)
while ( strlen(word) )
{
abracadabra(word);
putchar('\0');
printf("\n");
word[strlen(word) - 1] = '\0';
}
word[strlen(word)-1] = '\0';
printf("\n");
system("pause");
return 0;
}