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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TO C OR NOT TO *C
Message-ID: <1294@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:40:49 GMT
References: <16107@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> <1989Oct16.172249.18387@utzoo.uucp> <991@cirrusl.UUCP>
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In article <991@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Playing Devil's advocate, we bravely yet blithely break Henry Spencer's
> every rule:
>      char c;
>      c = getc(stdin);           /* Oops! forgot to test for EOF! */
>      do {
>         if feof(stdin)
>            break;               /* WHEW! */
>         .. do stuff with c ..
>         c = getc(stdin);
>      } while (1);

And the same code could have been done without the break, without the 
overhead of the feof() function call for every iteration of the loop
and (in my humble opinion) more readable as follows:

      int c;
      while( (c=getc(stdin)) != EOF);
      {
         .. do stuff with c ..
      }
	



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