Eof

[c-beginner]

Hi,
I'v got a problem with runnig of this program. It doesn't work. My input comes from keyboard and I can only input characters and the characters never get counted.
I think it relates with EOF.
Could you help me please?

/*char_count.c. A program to count characters of input.*/
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
int c ;
int count ;
count=0;
while ( ( c = getchar() ) != EOF )
count ++count ;
printf( "%d characters\n" , count ) ;
}

[NoUse]

Okay, you type the EOF character on your keyboard, then come back and talk to us.

First off, main should ALWAYS return an int even if your compiler let's you get away with not returning it.

Second, I think this is what you're looking for:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
  int c ;
  int count ;
  count=0;
  while ( ( c = getchar() ) != '\n' )
      ++count ;
  printf( "%d characters\n" , count );
  return 0;
}

Yay!

nouse@NeverlandRanch:~$ gcc count.c -o count      
nouse@NeverlandRanch:~$ ./count           
abcd
4 characters
nouse@NeverlandRanch:~$

[c-beginner]

Hi,
Thanks for the information. But I aks me how it is if a text has several rules (you've used "Enter" to make a text)?
For example:
"This is a test.
I want to control the above program."

With your program you can only count the first rule, can't you?
bye

[Silfer]

In most cases you won't have multiline input from the command line, but from a file, and there you don't hit enter to input, obviously, and can read till you find EOF.

As for allowing the user to type say two lines and count the characters in, as in your example... hm, wasn't that easy. I can't find any clever solution off the bat - all functions for input seem to start reading as soon as you hit enter.

You could of course read one line, then just let the user keep typing and read the other line, but then you don't know when there is nothing more to read.

-edit: I edited because my tests that I used to determine what I wrote here were faulty, and thus my writings were as well.