kernighan-and-ritchie

I am stumped by the 1.5.2 question in K&R. I googled for sometime and found out that i have to supply the EOF input after entering the characters. long nc = 0; while (getchar() != EOF) ++nc; printf("%ld\n", nc); return 0; I tried both commnad-D and control-D as EOF inputs but nothing worked. Any Idea how to supply the EOF for mac osx? Eric Postpischil By default, OS X (formerly Mac OS X) terminals recognize EOF when Ctrl - D is pressed at the beginning of a line. In detail, the actual operation is that, when Ctrl - D is pressed, all bytes in the terminal’s input buffer are sent to the running

I am currently reading K&R's book and typing in the examples from the first section, and there are a couple of examples such as this: while((c = getchar()) != EOF) { //do something } I am testing these examples on a Windows box and thus running the compiled exe files from the cmd prompt. To test the example above, how do I simulate an EOF ? That is, basically how can I make the loop stop when testing the example from the command prompt? Greg Hewgill To enter an EOF, use: ^Z ( Ctrl Z ) in Windows ^D on Unix-like systems Refer EOF Windows: Ctrl+Z Unix :Ctrl+D First, press: Ctrl^X, next: Ctrl^D