What is the symbol for whitespace in C?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to check if a character is equal to white-space in C. I know that tabs are \'\\t\' and newlines are \'\\n\', but I wa

Answer 1

#include 
main()
{
int c,sp,tb,nl;
sp = 0;
tb = 0;
nl = 0;
while((c = getchar()) != EOF)
{
   switch( c )
{
   case ' ':
        ++sp;
     printf("space:%d\n", sp);
     break;
   case  '\t':
        ++tb;
     printf("tab:%d\n", tb);
     break;
   case '\n':
        ++nl;
     printf("new line:%d\n", nl);
     break;
  }
 }
}