On , Dennis Brown (1:133/1004.3{at}fidonet) wrote: 

 > A bit confused here... I was reading "Introduction to C",
(not sure what
 > edition), and in the beginning chapter, they give an example of getchar().

 > int c=0,nc=0;
 > while((c=getchar()) != EOF)
 > {putchar(c);
 > ++nc;
 > }
 > printf("Total number of characters is %d\n",nc);

 > What character input from the keyboard represents the EOF character/key?

Dennis...

  EOF is an internal flag which indicates that there was no character
available. In your example, it will read stdin until there's no longer 


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