#include <stdio.h> int count_char_occurrences(const char *input_str, char target_char) { int count = 0; while (*input_str) { if (*input_str == target_char) { count++; } input_str++; } return count; } int main() { const char *input_string = "Hello, World!"; char target_character = 'l'; int result = count_char_occurrences(input_string, target_character); printf("The character '%c' appears %d times in the given string.\n", target_character, result); return 0; }