Write a program to check whether a given string is a palindrome.

Palindrome is a string, which when read in both forward and backward way is same.


Example: radar, madam, pop, lol, etc.,
Program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
 char string1[20];
 int i, length;
 int flag = 0;
 printf("Enter a string: \n");
 scanf("%s", string1);

 length = strlen(string1);
 for(i=0;i < length ;i++){
  if(string1[i] != string1[length-i-1]){
   flag = 1;
   break;
  }
 }

 if (flag) {
  printf("%s is not a palindrome\n", string1);
 }
 else {
  printf("%s is a palindrome\n", string1);
 }
 return 0;
}

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Output:Enter a string: radar“radar” is a palindrome
Explanation with example:

To check if a string is a palindrome or not, a string needs to be compared with the reverse of itself.

Consider a palindrome string: "radar",
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index: 0 1 2 3 4
value: r a d a r
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To compare it with the reverse of itself, the following logic is used:

0th character in the char array, string1 is same as 4th character in the same string.
1st character is same as 3rd character.
2nd character is same as 2nd character.
. . . .
ith character is same as 'length-i-1'th character.

If any one of the above condition fails, flag is set to true(1), which implies that the string is not a palindrome.
By default, the value of flag is false(0). Hence, if all the conditions are satisf

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