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doubt in EOF

rampraveen
while((c=getc(fin))!=EOF)....... any body knows what is the work of EOF here....i saw EOF value is equal to 0 and -1...but i do't know how it works here .....if anybody knows pls tell...End Of File means whether it reads the given file upto the last line of a file..pls help me........
May 19 '10 #1
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No normally EOF has a value of -1 because the characters read have values in the range 0 - 255.

This basically keeps reading characters from the file until the end of the file is reached.

It is important that c has the type int, it will not work properly if c is a char.
May 19 '10 #2

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