WAP to find two Complement of a binary number

Write a C program to read binary number from user and find twos complement of the binary number. How to find 2's complement of a binary number in C. Logic to find twos complement of a binary number in C program.
Example
Input
Input binary number: 01101110
Output
Twos complement: 10010010
What is twos complement?
Wikipedia states, twos complement of an N-bit number is defined as the complement with respect to 2N. It is the result of subtracting the number from 2N, which in binary is one followed by N zeroes.
In simple words twos complement can be defined as sum of 1's complement of the binary number and 1.
Logic to find twos complement
Below is the step by step descriptive logic to find twos complement of a binary string.
1.            Read a binary string from user. Store it in some variable say binary.
2.            Convert the binary string to ones complement. Store it in some variable say onesComp.
3.            Initialize another binary string variable to store twos complement, say twosComp = "".
4.            Initialize a variable to store carry bit during addition. Say carry = 1. You may think now, why initialize carry to 1, why not 0? Since, we need to add only 1 to the binary string hence, I have initially assumed carry bit as the bit to be added.
5.            Run a loop from length of binary string to 1, decrementing 1 in each iteration. The loop structure should look like for(i=SIZE-1; i>=1; i--) (where SIZE is length of the binary string). You may think, why iterating in reverse order? Because addition is carried out in right to left order.
6.            Inside the loop there can be three cases:
Case I: If both current binary bit and carry bit are 1 then, put 0 to twos complement. Which is if
onesComp[i]=='1' && carry==1 then, twosComp[i] = '0', carry is still preserved to 1.
Case II: If current binary bit is 0 and carry bit is 1 then, put 1 to twos complement and set carry bit to 0. Which is if 
onesComp[i]=='0' && carry==1 then, twosComp[i] = '1' and carry = 0.
Case III: If carry bit is 0, then assign the value of 
onesComp to twosComp.
Program to find twos complement
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/**
 * C program to find 2's complement of a binary number
 */

#include <stdio.h>

#define SIZE 8

int main()
{
    char binary[SIZE + 1], onesComp[SIZE + 1], twosComp[SIZE + 1];
    int i, carry=1;

    printf("Enter %d bit binary value: ", SIZE);
     
    // Read 8-bit binary string
    gets(binary);

    /*
     * Finds the 1's complement of the binary number
     */
    for(i=0; i<SIZE; i++)
    {
        if(binary[i] == '1')
        {
            onesComp[i] = '0';
        }
        else if(binary[i] == '0')
        {
            onesComp[i] = '1';
        }
    }
    onesComp[SIZE] = '\0';

    /*
     * Add 1 to the 1's complement
     */
    for(i=SIZE-1; i>=0; i--)
    {
        if(onesComp[i] == '1' && carry == 1)
        {
            twosComp[i] = '0';
        }
        else if(onesComp[i] == '0' && carry == 1)
        {
            twosComp[i] = '1';
            carry = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            twosComp[i] = onesComp[i];
        }
    }
    twosComp[SIZE] = '\0';

    printf("Original binary = %s\n", binary);
    printf("Ones complement = %s\n", onesComp);
    printf("Twos complement = %s\n", twosComp);

    return 0;
}


Output
Enter 8 bit binary value: 01101100
Original binary = 01101100
Ones complement = 10010011
Twos complement = 10010100


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