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

Change the line

// Buggy, you want calculate the # of '\n' in loop body,
// so logically you shouldn't use it as a stop condition.
while ((c = getchar()) != '\n')

to

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)

And try press Ctrl + C in your console window on Windows. It works on my platform which is running Win7.