is this correct

From: Darklight (nglen702_at_netscape.net)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:08:32 +0000 (UTC)

Q6: Write a function that accepts two strings. Count the number of
characters in each, and return a pointer to the longer string.
and please comment

/* LEN_STRING.C PROGRAM TO RETURN LONGEST STRING */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

void length(char [ ], char [ ]);

int main(void)
{

    char a[100];
    char b[100];
    
    printf("Enter string1\n");
    fgets(a,100,stdin);

    printf("Enter string2\n");
    fgets(b,100,stdin);

    length(a,b);

    return 0;
}

void length(char string1[ ], char string2[ ])
{
      char *line;
          
     if((strlen(string1)) > (strlen(string2)))
         {
         line = string1;
         printf("\nstring 1 is the longest\n%s\n",line);
         }
     else if(strlen(string1) < strlen(string2))
         {
          line = string2;
          printf("\nstring 2 is the longest\n%s\n",line);
         }
     else
          printf("\nBoth strings are the same length\n");
}

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