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Show us what you've tried. Tell us what it does and what you expected it to do and we can help you make the two match up better.

(I wouldn't be surprised to find an example program kicking around here somewhere...did you do a search before you started a topic?)

sorry i forgot to post my code

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#include <stdio.h>
 
int main() {
 
int i ;
int c;
 
while ( ( i = getchar() ) != EOF )
c++ ;
 
printf( "%d characters\n" , c) ;
 
return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h> int main() { int i ; int c; while ( ( i = getchar() ) != EOF ) c++ ; printf( "%d characters\n" , c) ; return 0; }

does this seem ok? ... when i run it ./a.out i click enter
then i enter a word say "daniweb" and press enter and then hit ctrl+d and it says 8 characters