https://www.emblogic.com/blog/02/while-cgetchar-eof/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 https://www.emblogic.com/blog/02/while-cgetchar-eof/#comment-654 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:17:50 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=1913#comment-654 plz ignore my first comment.getchar returns the next character of keyboard input as an int. If there is an error then EOF (end of file) is returned instead.hence we need to compare it with EOF.variable c must be an int type.to come out of this loop we need to press cntrl-d from stdin.which internally generates a signal & getchar evaluates this error as EOF.

]]> https://www.emblogic.com/blog/02/while-cgetchar-eof/#comment-653 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:49:05 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=1913#comment-653 getchar function takes input from stdin character by character.its stored in a variable c.&that’s compared with EOF.EOF stands for END OF FILE.we use this while reading characters from a file.but here the character is read from stdin.so as per my understanding this loop has no use.

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