[sclug] Off topic C question

[Dickon Hood]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:11:32 +0100, Patrick wrote:
: Hi all,

: Can anyone see why this character counting program always finds zero 
: characters?  Its based on an example from K&R Chapter 1 which also fails.

: #include "stdio.h"

: int main()
: {
:         /* count characters*/
:         FILE *inFile;
:         inFile = fopen("motd.xml", "r");
:         int c = 0;
:         long lc = 0;

:         while ((c = getc(inFile)) != EOF)
:         {
:                 if (c == "l") {

                           ^^^ that's a char *, not a char.  You want
			   single quotes and a cast.

:                 ++lc;
:                 }
:         }

:         printf("Typed %1d lines\n", nc);

:         system("pause");

:         return 0;
: }

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