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I need to do a project that is suppose to read a file and it is suppose to display the number of the line plus whatever the file is reading indented by a tab:
example file:
"This is
the test
file."

expected output:
1 "This is
2 the test
3 file."

I am having two problems.

1. I need to check first if the file is empty.

2. The program includes the last line in the file, even though its empty. It comes out like this:
1 "This is
2 the test
3 file."
4

This is my program:
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
int c, nl_cnt = 1;
if ((c = getchar()) == 'null') /*<-----"Doesn't work */
printf("File is empty\n");
else
{
printf("%d\t", nl_cnt);
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
if (c == '\n')
{
++nl_cnt;
printf("\t\n");
printf("%d\t", nl_cnt);

}
else
printf("%c", c);
}
}



I need help please!

we don't allow classroom problems, however since you have done some work I will give you some general observations.

1. You will lose the first character with this implementation, you read but never use it.
2. You don't actually need to test the value of the character, a simple true/false test is sufficient for what you are doing in both the if and while cases.