' char* strInput =(char*) malloc(sizeof(char));
int ch;
int letNum = 0;
while((ch = getchar()) != EOF){
letNum++;
strInput = (char*)realloc(strInput,letNum*sizeof(char));
*(strInput + letNum - 1) = ch;
}
printf("\n");
printf("%s\n",strInput);
free(strInput);`
This is the contents of main in a program I wrote that takes an undefined number of chars and prints the final string. I don’t understand why but it only works if I press ctrl+D twice, and only once if I press enter before.
does anyone get what’s going on? And how would you have written the program?
Thanks a lot for your answer. This might be because of my shallow understanding of how a buffer works, but I don’t understand why EOF isn’t consumed by getchar() when the other bytes are consumed. Isn’t a char just a number and EOF too (-1 I think)? I probably should try and understand buffers more