What is the difference between getch() and getchar() in c programming? Update Cancel. What is the difference between getch() and getchar() in C language? What is difference between getchar() and putchar() in C language? What is the difference between getchar() and scanf() functions for reading in c programming? Also, towards the end, I used printf's simply because I just wanted to see the darn program working! Eventually, I will need to use putchar's.I assume it is similar to what I did with the getchar's, but I'm still a bit hazy there. Thanks for looking!
Yes, that was run under Linux, but I see no reason why you couldn't run this under Windows. I've not used any special headers or custom OS behaviour:) But otherwise I recommend using Linux for C programming as its most popular compiler GCC supports the C99 standard. VC only implements C90 and there no plans to support any newer C standards. And this is a personal opinion of course but your assumption is correct in that Linux makes it easier to do programming, not just for C. – Jul 19 '13 at 1:01.
Putchar is a function in the C programming language that writes a single character to the standard output stream, stdout. Its prototype is as follows: int putchar (int character) The character to be printed is fed into the function as an argument, and if the writing is successful, the argument character is returned. Otherwise, end-of-file is returned.
The putchar function is specified in the C standard library header file stdio.h. Sample usage The following program uses getchar to read characters into an array and print them out using the putchar function after an end-of-file character is found.