#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<string.h>

#define	MAX_LEN 10
#define	ALPHA_LEN 26

int
main()
{
	char	strings[][MAX_LEN] = {	"abcdefghi",
					"jklmnop",
					"",
					"qrstu",
					"vwxyz" };
	char	alpha[ALPHA_LEN + 1]; /* "+ 1" is for the nul byte */
	int	i;

	strcpy(alpha, "");

	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(strings)/sizeof(strings[0]); i++) 
		strcat(alpha, strings[i]);

	printf("\"%s\" has length %d\n", alpha, strlen(alpha));

	if (strcmp(alpha, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") == 0)
		puts("The resulting string forms the alphabet");

	return 0;
}