Get the next character: how to use getc



#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
  FILE *file;
  char c;
  int n = 0;

  file = fopen("my.txt", "r");
  
  if (file==NULL) 
      perror ("Error reading file");
  else
  {
    do {
      c = getc (file);
      if (c == '$') 
          n++;
      } while (c != EOF);
    fclose (file);
    printf ("my.txt contains %d $.\n",n);
  }
  return 0;
}

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