Re: Reading input problem

> On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:58:41 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Be careful with your counts.  Most people would say that a 30
> character words needs a 31 character array to store it.  I'd say
> your code accepts words up to and including 29 characters.

with maxlength = 30, my function reads 30 characters plus the '\0':



int getword( char *word, int max_length )
{
  int c;
  char *w = word;


  while( !( isalpha( c = getchar() ) ) && EOF != c )
    {
      continue;
    }
 
  do {
    if( isalpha( c ) )
      {
	*w++ = c;
      }
    else if( isspace( c ) || c == EOF)
      {
	*w = '\0';
	break;
      }
    else
      {
	return 0;
      }
    
  } while( --max_length && (c = getchar()) );


  *w = '\0';


  return word[0];
}



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