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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? |
| Date | 2011-08-31 21:15 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j3mmbo$59f$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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