Thread: scanf and EOF

Hi all,

i have studied this following statement from a book "Each scanning function returns EOF if it encounters end-of-file before any conversion; otherwise it returns the number of successful conversions that were stored."

To test this i have written the following code

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char c;
    int ret=0;
    ret = scanf("%c",&c);
    printf("%c\n %d\n",c,ret);
    printf("%d",EOF);

    return 0;
}

i have given directly EOF character Ctrl + Z followed by return key as input. The output is ret = 1 instead of -1. where am i doing the mistake? i know i am doing a mistake some where.

thanks in advance,
regards,
satya

Should ret not be 1? Scanf returns the number of items read if it scanned correctly.