Using getchar() function to read a character from standard input and puts() function to write a string to stdout output

Compiler: Visual C++ Express Edition 2005

Compiled on Platform: Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition

Header file: Standard

Additional library: none/default

Additional project setting: Set project to be compiled as C

Project -> your_project_name Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compiled As: Compiled as C Code (/TC)

Other info:

To do: Reading data from the standard input using getchar() and write it to the standard output using puts() C function

To show: How to use the C functions getchar() and puts() to read from standard input and write to standard output respectively

// Using getchar()/getwchar() and puts()/_putws()

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)

{

char c, sentence[80];

int i = 0;

printf("Using getchar() and puts()\n");

printf("--------------------------\n");

puts("Enter a line of text: ");

// while iteration/loop

while (( c = getchar()) != '\n')

sentence[i++] = c;

// insert NULL at the end of string

sentence[i] = '\0';

puts("\nThe line of text entered was: ");

puts(sentence);

return 0;

}

Output example:

Using getchar() and puts()

--------------------------

Enter a line of text:

This is a line of text

The line of text entered was:

This is a line of text

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