OneAndOneIs2

Back to K&R, and I encounter the next excercise: Write a loop to replace the trusty "Getline" function that doesn't use && or || - the "AND" and "NOT" operators

I almost didn't do this one: It basically requires you to take an elegant and simple bit of code, and replace it with something horrible. It would have been slightly better if I knew about "break" but I don't yet (by the book).

Still, I did it: Too stubborn to leave it alone. Even so, I still don't like it. Horrible bit of code.

Follow up:

{
        int i, c;

        for (i = c = 0; c != '\n' && (c = getchar()) != EOF && i < max-1; ++i)
                string[i] = c;
        string[i] = '\0';
        return i;
}

That was the original bit of code. The "for" had to be replaced with a loop that didn't require && or ||, and so:

{
        int i, c, cont;

        i = c = cont = 0;
        while (!cont)
        {
                if (c != '\n')
                {
                        if ((c=getchar()) != EOF)
                        {
                                if (i < max-1)
                                {
                                        string[i] =c;
                                        ++i;
                                }
                                else
                                        cont = 1;
                        }
                        else
                                cont = 1;
                }
                else
                        cont = 1;
        }
        string[i] = '\0';
        return i;
}