Why is it that in this statement "c = '\t'" is not "c == '\t'" (an additional equal sign). I read an explanation that it is because \t is a visual representation of the tab character.
Isn't \n and ' ' also visual representations of a newline and space character respectively?
if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c = '\t')
Why is it that in this statement "c = '\t'" is not "c == '\t'" (an additional equal sign). I read an explanation that it is because \t is a visual representation of the tab character.
Isn't \n and ' ' also visual representations of a newline and space character respectively?
if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c = '\t')
Incorrect! It should be c == '\t' There's nothing special about the '\t' c = '\t' will assign a tab to variable c
In addition to what Aia said about c = '\t' :
The assignment operator produces a value, values can be used to control an if-statement, like in your example. That's the reason why your code will still compile and run. In C every zero and non-zero value are respectively equivalent for false and true, the '\t' character has a non-zero value thus is equivalent for true.
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