Simple C Question (was: down)

[John L. Furlani]

In article <gables.352 at umigw.miami.edu>, slores%gables.span at umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
> PLEASE don't flame for posting too simple a question.  I think the following
> SHOULD work, but will not even compile:
> 	while ( (c = getchar) != EOF)
> 		chcnt++ += (c == '\n');
> The purpose is to count characters in a file.  Each time a newline is


    This snippit of code should do it.  It will count the newlines, but it
won't count the returns.  

        while ((c = getc(infile)) != EOF)
            if (c == '\r') chcnt++;

    As for 'chcnt++ += (c == '\n')', you can't assign what is being 
incremented to anything.  This is different of course from '*count++ = 45'
where the pointer is being incremented and the info contained in the 
pointer is being assigned.


Flame?  Who us?

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