whitespace eliminator

[zapree]

I'm trying to eliminate any double whitespace, tab, or newline, or any combination of the two in succession from a file (leaving the old one the same and creating a new one). For some reason this seems to just be skipping the else statement where I expected it to write to the new file. the new file is appearing, but there is nothing written into it.

 while( fscanf(inputFile, "%c", &currentCharRead) == 1 )
    {
        if((currentCharRead == ' ' || currentCharRead == '	' || currentCharRead == '\n') && 
            (lastCharRead == ' ' || lastCharRead == '	' || lastCharRead == '\n'));
	else{
        	fprintf(outputFile, "%c", currentCharRead);
        }
        lastCharRead = currentCharRead;
    }

What am I doing wrong?

thanks

[Salem]

1. You should write your tab as '\t'

2. Show us how you opened the output file.
You say it isn't writing anything, but have you tried using a debugger say to verify whether the else is being executed, even it it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

If the file wasn't opened properly, this loop could still be working and you wouldn't realise it.