Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help?

From	blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help?
Date	2011-09-01 15:06 +0000
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In article <j3mmbo$59f$1@dont-email.me>,
Eric Sosman  <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
> On 8/31/2011 12:15 PM, John Gordon wrote:
> > In<lnr541tw0k.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>  Keith Thompson<kst-u@mib.org>  writes:
> >
> >> Note that a carriage return (or newline; is that what was meant?) *is*
> >> whitespace.
> >
> > Sure.  But if you're reading keyboard input and you don't differentiate
> > between newline and other kinds of whitespace, how would you ever know
> > that the user pressed Enter thus signaling end-of-input?
> 
>      The original problem statement is somewhat vague, but I think
> it's pretty clear that "white space" -- any "white space" -- is to
> be taken as a terminator.
> 
>      Unfortunately, "white space" is left undefined.  One might appeal
> to isspace() from <ctype.h>, but the problem statement forbids using
> it, so the position that isspace() encapsulates the definition of
> "white space" is hard to sustain.  Under the circumstances, I think
> the problem-solver would be justified in considering "white space" to
> be any of the characters ' ', '\t', '\n', '\v', '\r', '#', 'W', and 'q'.
> Justified, but probably ill-advised since the sloppy problem-setter is
> unlikely to give points to a solution that points out his sloppiness.

You never know -- I mean, there *are* instructors who are glad
to have mistakes pointed out, especially if it's done reasonably
diplomatically -- but that might not be the way to bet.  :-)?

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.

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I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Jack <spamtrap@trashcan.invalid> - 2011-08-30 21:01 +0000
  Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-31 09:18 +1200
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Jack <spamtrap@trashcan.invalid> - 2011-08-30 21:20 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-31 10:34 +1200
  Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-30 21:29 +0000
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Jack <spamtrap@trashcan.invalid> - 2011-08-30 21:43 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-30 22:16 +0000
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2011-08-30 16:26 -0700
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-30 21:44 -0400
          Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-31 02:03 +0000
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-31 08:56 -0700
              Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-31 16:15 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-31 09:20 -0700
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-31 21:15 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-08-31 22:18 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:06 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:04 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-09-01 15:20 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2011-09-06 01:20 -0400
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-30 16:37 -0700
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-08-31 00:51 +0100
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 13:28 +0000
          Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:03 +0000
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-01 08:49 -0700
              Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 07:46 +0000
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-01 21:30 -0400
              Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 07:48 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-31 11:58 +1200
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2011-08-31 07:27 +0000
  Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-08-31 10:37 +0100
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 13:29 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-08-31 18:41 +0100
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:05 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:42 -0700
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-31 09:15 -0700
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-08-31 18:36 +0100
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-08-31 11:44 -0700
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 15:05 +0000
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-01 08:51 -0700
          Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-01 17:26 +0100
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 07:47 +0000
              Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-02 10:56 +0100
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 20:21 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "Bartc" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-09 13:59 +0100
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-02 10:43 +0100
  Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 12:02 -0600
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-01 15:12 -0400
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? sandeep <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-09-01 19:36 +0000
      Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 14:53 -0600
        Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-01 16:01 -0700
          Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 17:22 -0600
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-01 19:39 -0400
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-01 16:39 -0700
              Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 18:51 -0600
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-01 22:27 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-01 22:53 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-02 10:45 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-02 11:02 -0400
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-02 08:05 -0700
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-02 08:17 -0700
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-09-02 15:18 +0000
                Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-02 08:42 -0700
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-01 23:21 -0400
          Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-01 21:53 -0400
            Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-09-01 23:09 -0400
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-09-01 21:43 -0700
    Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-02 08:32 -0700

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