Re: What's the guideline for dealing with unwanted chars in input stream?
- From: "Chuck F. " <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:55:15 -0500
Richard Heathfield wrote:
lovecreatesbeauty said:
.... big snip ... >
19 20 /* remove unwanted chars in input stream here now */ 21 while(getchar() != '\n'); //intended null loop body
This won't work, because it will keep reading and discarding characters up to AND INCLUDING the first non-newline, which is presumably supposed to be data.
Hunh? It will remove chars from the stream, including the '\n'. The fault is that it doesn't check for EOF, which can lead to a fairly long wait.
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