--- Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, everyone! No need to answer this one. I think I know what my problem is. The book contains typographical errors such that example programs might not work if one would just copy and paste it. Particularly in the example below, the second if's third condition lacks one "=" sign that's why the compiler complained an error of assigning values when testing for equality is what it really wants to do. > Hi, > Sorry for asking this question here. I just > thought > that this might be a platform specific issue=). I'm > reading this book(The C Programming Language 2nd > Edition by Brian W. Kernighan. Upon reading the > book, > I came up with this example code. It says, it will > count the number of words, lines and characters in > the > command line, until I send an EOF signal. I copied > it > verbatim and tried compiling it with plain "cc > myprog.c"
> > It exited with errors: > > word.c: In function `main': > word.c:17: error: invalid lvalue in assignment > > Any idea what this means? > > Thanks. > > > > Here's the code: > #include<stdio.h> > > #define IN 1 > #define OUT 0 > > main() > { > int c, nl, nw, nc, state; > > state = OUT; > nl = nw = nc = 0; > while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) { > > ++nc; > if (c == '\n') > ++nl; > if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c = '\t') > state = OUT; > else if (state == OUT) { > state = IN; > ++nw; > } > > } > printf("%d %d %d\n", nl, nw, nc); > } > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage > less. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"