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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Test of possible ACSGATE on net
Message-ID: <721@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 14:35:08 GMT
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garth_kidd%680.808@fidogate.fido.oz (Garth Kidd) sez:
>Can anyone think of a tighter way of coding a filter to strip spaces
>from the input stream than this?
>
>main()
>{
>  char ch;
>
>  for(;read(0,&ch,1)==1;write(1,&ch,(ch==' ')?0:1))
>    ;
>}

#include <stdio.h>
main()
 {
    int ch;
    while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF)
      if (ch != ' ')
	putchar(ch);
 }

However, contemplate what will happen to the correctness of either of
the above programs if passed through such a filter. They will _BOTH_
break, either failing to compile or generating incorrect code if they
do compile.
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