RE: [Dev-C++] Basic C question: scanf

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

In my opinion you should use the solution suggested by Nurhidayat (I mean 
compare the value returned by scanf with EOF, see below), in fact this 
allows your code be used like a "filter".

Just in case you are not familiar with redirection and pipes, here is what 
I mean.

Suppose you wish to input these values: 100 200 300
You could feed the values via console (as you usually do) or by the 
following two steps: (I assume that you are in a DOS box, and your 
executable is named salary.exe)
- write the values in a text file (say that you name the file: salary.dat)
- launch the command: salary < salary.dat.

try also: salary < salary.dat > out.dat
and : salary < salary.dat >> out.dat

The above is redirection.

Better yet: if the values to be fed to salary.exe are the output of another 
executable (say it: compute.exe), assuming that it writes to stdout, you 
could tie the output of "compute" to the input of "salary" by the following 
command:
compute | salary

The above is an example of a "pipe".

Hope this was of some help.

At 22.43 12/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who replied. I had expected the <cr> to be a legal input.
>Thanks for the info.
>
>Mary
>
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>If you write loop like this
>
>   while (scanf("%lf", &salary) != EOF) {
>      ...
>   }
>
>You can use <ctrl>Z to finish input.
>
>
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