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somboku

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Hi guys,

I'm confusing about getchar() while reading Ritchie Kerninghans book.

while this one loops as my 2.4Ghz can
Ex1
c = getchar(); while( c != EOF ) { ++g; if ((g % 1000000000) == 0) { printf("%lld\n",g); } if(g > 10000000000) break; }

but this. just waits and prints input for input on every [ENTER]:

Ex2
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF){ ++f; printf("c:%c.",c); if ( f > 1000) break; //putchar(c); }

shouldn't be getchar() outside a while just a "oneShot" and inside like
in the second example loop as the first one?
And why dosnt Ex1 starts print immidiately but right after hitting [ENTER]?

thanks.
S.
 
Both code samples work exactly as they should. Ex 1 reads the keyboard once, then executes a loop that prints some stuff and ends when the counter reaches max. Testing c for EOF is bogus here, as c never changes (and anyway, your keyboard will never return EOF, except maybe when it breaks) . Ex 2 starts a loop requiring you to hit the keyboard with every iteration. What exactly do you not understand about it ?
Your question
shouldn't be getchar() outside a while just a "oneShot" and inside like
in the second example loop as the first one?
does not make any sense to me. Please state what exactly you expect, and/or want to achieve.
 
Both code samples work exactly as they should. Ex 1 reads the keyboard once, then executes a loop that prints some stuff and ends when the counter reaches max. Testing c for EOF is bogus here, as c never changes (and anyway, your keyboard will never return EOF, except maybe when it breaks) . Ex 2 starts a loop requiring you to hit the keyboard with every iteration. What exactly do you not understand about it ?
Your question

does not make any sense to me. Please state what exactly you expect, and/or want to achieve.
Well, thanks for the answer.

I read your answer a few times and still ... yes... but why is this like..
And I wanted to answer your question and dubble check with the origin..

The following happend: I am reading THAT book from Ritchi Kerninghahn 2nd Edition in
in order to learn C. And messing around with that getChar() -creating own loops etc...
This is the original loop in the book:
... int c; c = getchar(); while (c != EOF){ putchar(c); c = getchar(); }

after a while that "c = getchar()" within the loop was not there. And I tried to understand
my "broken" snippet example. :/

Now, I am fine thanks to you and I can turn to page 32. :)

Thx.
 

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