[Courses] [C] Lesson 13: exc1 answer, problem on exc2

[Laurel Fan]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:58:08PM -0500, Morgon Kanter wrote:
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> Okay, here is exercise 2. I'm having a bit of trouble in this one because in 
> the output file, it copies correctly but it adds the character "y" with a 
> sideways-colon over top of it on a newline. Any ideas why?

Here's a hint:

Files do not really contain EOF.

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Another hint: 

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>     while(current_char != EOF) {
First, You check if current_char is EOF.
>         current_char = fgetc(file_read);
Then you set current_char by reading it from the file.
Could current_char == EOF here?

Does that help?

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