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Re: HELP!! Two questions from <<the c programming language>>

Chris Dollin

2007-05-31, 7:57 am

Tak wrote:

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> No, I think you are misunderstanding.
> It's not homework;
>
> I can't work out Exercise 1-9.
> My code of Exercise 1-10 is like this:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> main()
> {
> char c;

/int/ c.

> while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)

`getchar` returns an `int`, because it must be able to return
every character value /and one more/, viz EOF. (Yes, this
presents problems on systems where `sizeof(int) == sizeof(char)`.)

> I don't know whether it's right or not?

Does it pass your test cases?

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