Thread: follow up with char I/O and line, word, and char counting

When i compile my program only the character counts seems to be returning the proper value, but line and word count return 0 and 1 respectivley. From my previous post I understand that the program didnt see the hard returns, so my question is this:

I typed the gettysburg address in notepad and saved it as a text file on the a:\drive. Is notepad not capable of displayed the 'hard return' or is c unable to read 'hard returns' from note and it is better to use another editor like 'wordpad'?

Here is a copy of my code;



[code]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

#define WHT_SPC (symbol == " " || symbol == '\n' || symbol == '\t')



main()
{


char symbol;
int preSymbol;
int lineCount = 0;
int symbolCount = 0;
int wordCount = 0;
char word = 'O';
FILE *gettyadd;

clrscr();

if (!(gettyadd = fopen("A:\\gettyadd.txt", "r")))
}
printf("Unable to open file for reading");
getch();
return (1);
}

while ((symbol = fgetc(gettyadd)) != EOF)
{
if (symbol != '\n')
symbolCount++;
else
lineCount++;
}

if (preSymbol != '\n')
lineCount++;

while ((symbol = fgetc(gettyadd)) != EOF)
{
if (WHT_SPC)
word = 'O';
else
if (word == 'O')
{
wordCount++;
word = 'I';
}
}

printf("The number of characters is: %d\n", symbolCount);
printf("The number of lines is: %d\n", lineCount);
printf("The number of words is: %d\n", wordCount);
fclose(gettyadd);

getch();
return 0;

}
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Thanks for your time.

correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't DOS and UNIX treat the hard return as different values?

I'm not exactly sure what the value would be for DOS, but I'm sure you could search for it easily if I am indeed correct.