From: Sinan_Unur AT mail DOT com (A. Sinan Unur)
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Subject: Re: Getchar problems in while() loop.
Date: 22 May 2000 20:30:52 GMT
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djgpp AT delorie DOT com (2711) wrote in <39298E3C DOT 99DCB2A1 AT mail DOT owc DOT net>:

>Hey, thank you for reading my message, I'm having problems with a little
>educational program I wrote,
>The magic number is obviously five, but when it is entered, like any
>other value,
>
>guess the magic number *beeep*
>guess the magic number *beeep*
>
>is displayed.
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>void main(void)

please see question 1.25b in the comp.lang.c faq available at 
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/.

>{
>int stop;
>
>        while ((stop=getchar())!= 5)
>        {
>         printf("Guess the magic number\n\a");
>         stop=getchar();
>        }
>}
>

the following would do something sorta good enough:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    while( getchar() != '5' )
	puts("Guess the magic number:");

    return 0;
}

however, the correct prompt in this case is "Guess the magic character", 
not magic number.

for a simple example of parsing numbers typed on the command line, you can 
take a look at http://unur.com/howto/c-examples.html.

hth.

Sinan.
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