Thread: Count Characters

Hi all,

I am very new to C and am working through the book (The C Programming Language).

This program does not displaying the character count when I enter text. Can anybody tell me if I am missing something, this is straight from the text on page 20 (I'm sure lots of people will have or have read this book).

Code:

#include <stdio.h>


main()
{
    double nc;
    for (nc = 0; gechar() != EOF; ++nc)
         ;
    printf("%.0f\n", nc);
}

Cheers,
O

Thanks GReaper!

Can I ask what exactly Crtl+Z does?

Replace main() with int main(). Otherwise it's not standard and raises warnings.

Don't use a double for anything like this, it wastes memory and is slower. No reason to make the FPU do work and eat 8 bytes of stack memory when a simple int would suffice.

Also, gechar() isn't a function, it should be getchar().