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Triggering EOF From Keyboard Input (Terminal)

I'm a new[er] programmer and going through K&R's "ANSI C" 2nd edition book. The example has the following program that counts characters using getchar() until EOF is reached. include &...
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Why single digit numbers are appended with "D" (in C output)?

Why single digit numbers are appended with "D" (in C output)? The following code #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int c = 0; printf("%d\n", c); return 0; } ...
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getchar() with EOF not behaving as expected

Working my way through K&R I stumbled uppon this unexpected behaviour. Consider following code: #include <stdio.h> #define MAXWLEN 10 /* maximum word length */ #define ...
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Character Counting Example From K&R [closed]

K&R charcter counting Example I am not able to get output as expected in the book.For Example, when I enter a input "I am Back" and press enter it should give back me an answer but its not Why ...
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Program isn't accepting EOF to stop reading stdin

New to programming, working through K&R. After inputting using the stdin, I press ^D to write EOF (i'm using linux), and... nothing happens. I'm still able to write to the console, and able to ^Z ...
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C:folding a line after a fixed column

I am trying to write my solution for the KnR problem 1-22. Below is my code which I am not able to get why it's not working. It just prints the whole line that I typed, without folding. #include <...
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EOF exercise 1-6 K&R The C programming language

This is taken directly from the K&R book: The precedence of != is higher than that of =, which means that in the absence of parentheses the relational test != would be done before the assignment ...
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Very basic example code of "The C Programming Language" doesn't work like expected?

I'm a middle experienced Java developer and have many problems learning the C language for my computer science study. I try it with the book "The C Programming Language" which many people seem to ...
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How to simulate an EOF?

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 ...
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how does this code from "The C Programming Language" work?

I'm reading "The C Programming Language (2nd ed.) and near the beginning, it has examples like this: while((c = getchar()) != EOF) if(c == '\n'){ ++n1; I can see how this would work while ...
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