Reverse an input character string

<pre name="code" class="cpp">#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
{
  char str[50];
  int lenth,i;
  printf("Please input a character string:\n");
  gets(a);
  l = strlen(a);
  for (p = &a[l-1]; p >= a; p--)
    {
      printf("%c",*p);
    }
  printf("\n");
  for (i = l - 1; i >= 0; i--)
   {
    printf("%c",a[i]);
   }
   printf("\n");
  return 0;
}

Input: 

Please input a character string:

I am great!

Output: 
!taerg ma I