use of colon in C

[agentsmith]

FILE *fp = fopen ("file.txt", "r");
	if (fp != 0){
    do{
	x = 0;
	do{
	a = fgetc (fp);
	if (a != ' ' && a != '\n' && 
		a != EOF && a !=',' && 
		a !=';' && a !='.'&& 
		a !='!' && a !='?'
                a != ':'){
	  word[x] = a;
	  x++;
	  }else{
	if (x != 0){
		word[x] = '\0';
	    t = insertList (word, t);
		}
	}
      }while (a != ' ' && a != '\n' && 
			  a != EOF && a !=',' && 
			  a !=';' && a !='.'&& 
			  a !='!' && a !='?'
                          a != ':');

the function reads in characters from a file and puts the words into a list, apart from the characters specified in ' '. when i specify a colon as a character i want excluded i get a lot of errors from a compiler. how can i fix that?

[Adak]

FILE *fp = fopen ("file.txt", "r");
	if (fp != 0){
    do{
	x = 0;
	do{
	a = fgetc (fp);
	if (a != ' ' && a != '\n' && 
		a != EOF && a !=',' && 
		a !=';' && a !='.'&& 
		a !='!' && a !='?'
                a != ':'){
	  word[x] = a;
	  x++;
	  }else{
	if (x != 0){
		word[x] = '\0';
	    t = insertList (word, t);
		}
	}
      }while (a != ' ' && a != '\n' && 
			  a != EOF && a !=',' && 
			  a !=';' && a !='.'&& 
			  a !='!' && a !='?'
                          a != ':');

the function reads in characters from a file and puts the words into a list, apart from the characters specified in ' '. when i specify a colon as a character i want excluded i get a lot of errors from a compiler. how can i fix that?

You forgot the && for the colon.

Use a forward slash '/', rather than a backslash '\', for the code end tag, and your postings will looks much better.

[laserlight]

The problem is not the colon, but the missing && between a !='?' and a != ':'.

By the way, the closing code bbcode tag is /code, not \code.

[agentsmith]

cheers problem fixed