while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) Not terminating

Question

I\'ve been reading \"The C Programming Language\" and I got to this part of inputs and outputs.

I\'ve read other threads saying that the console doesn\'t recognize e

Answer 1

while ((c = getchar()) != '\n'){
    if (c == ' ')
        ++nb;
    else if (c == '\n')
        ++nl;
    else if (c == '\t')
        ++nt;
} 

According to the condition in your while loop, you will not be able to count number of new lines because you will stop the while loop when the user inputs a new line character ('\n')

Other than that, counting blanks and tabs just works fine.

CTRL+Z will be recognized as a EOF in windows. But in order to recognize it in your program, use condition in while loop as ((c = getchar()) != EOF). Now when the user presses the key combination: CTRL+Z, It will input to console as EOF, and the program should recognize it as a character input.

Doing this will allow you to count number of lines in the input

So, my suggestion is:

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF){
    if (c == ' ')
        ++nb;
    else if (c == '\n')
        ++nl;
    else if (c == '\t')
        ++nt;
}