Cleaned up formatting. Removed an unused comparison in the for loop responsible for printing the histogram.

KNR C/ex1_13_improved.c

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 
-/*Slight modification to ex1_13.c that makes charCount an array of ints 11 entries long, in order to circumvent the need for additional mathematical operations down the line as a consequence of ocurrences of the value "1" being store at position 0. This sacrifices 4 bytes of memory in the stack by extending the array, but results a shorter binary.
+/*Slight modification to ex1_13.c that makes charCount an array of ints 11
+ * entries long, in order to circumvent the need for additional mathematical
+ * operations down the line as a consequence of ocurrences of the value "1"
+ * being store at position 0. This sacrifices 4 bytes of memory in the stack
+ * by extending the array, but results a shorter binary.
  *
  * how much shorter, you ask?
  *
@@ -17,7 +21,12 @@ int main(){
 
 	int charCount[11]; /*Array for storing char lengths*/
 
-	int last, lCount, state, i; /*last stores last character, or 0 at init. lCount increments every time the main for loop encounters a non-newline/whitespace character and then resets when one is encountered after commiting its value to charCount.*/
+	int last, lCount, state, i; /*last stores last character, or 0 at init.
+								  lCount increments every time the main for
+								  loop encounters a non-newline/whitespace
+								  character and then resets when one is
+								  encountered after commiting its value
+								  to charCount.*/
 	/*Begin array initialization*/
 	for(i = 0; i < 11; ++i){
 		charCount[i] = 0;
@@ -30,27 +39,33 @@ int main(){
 	/*Begin input letter count enumeration.*/
 	for(int a = getchar(); a != EOF; a = getchar()){
 
-		/*Check if current char is WS. If so, set state to OUT and check if the last character was not. If it was not, then we are exiting a word, and so comitting lCount to charCount.*/
+		/*Check if current char is WS. If so, set state to OUT and check if the
+		 * last character was not. If it was not, then we are exiting a word,
+		 * and so comitting lCount to charCount.*/
 		if(a == '\t' || a == ' ' || a == '\n'){ 
 			state = OUT;
-			if (last != '\t' && last != ' ' && last != '\n'){ /*True on word exit only.*/
+			if (last != '\t' && last != ' ' && last != '\n'){ /*True on word
-				if(lCount > 10){ /*Array charCount only stores values up to 10, so we will add any longer words to the column for 10+*/
+																exit only.*/
+				if(lCount > 10){ /*Array charCount only stores values up to 10,
+								   so we will add any longer words to the
+								   column for 10+*/
 					++charCount[10]; 
 				} else {
-					
 					++charCount[(lCount)];				}
-				lCount = 0; /*Reset lCount when a condition that dumps it to charCount is triggered*/
+				lCount = 0; /*Reset lCount when a condition that dumps it to
+							  charCount is triggered*/
 			}
-
 		} else { 
 			state = IN;
-			++lCount; /*Increment lCount when encountering a non-WS character.*/
+			++lCount; /*Increment lCount when encountering a non-WS
+						character.*/
 		}
 		last = a; 
 		}
 	/*Input letter count enumeration complete*/
 	
-	/*Print a table of the number of words encountered for each number of characters.*/
+	/*Print a table of the number of words encountered for
+	 * each number of characters.*/
 	printf("Word letter count composition:\n");
 	for (i = 1; i <= 9; ++i)
 		printf("%3d", (i));
@@ -68,11 +83,13 @@ int main(){
 			printf("%3s", "10+");
 		}
 
-		for (b > 0; b > 0; --b){
+		for (; b > 0; --b){
 			printf("|");
 		}
 		printf("\n");
-		b = charCount[(i + 1)]; /*Get the value of the next position in the array; since i hasn't incremented yet, it's i+1*/
+		b = charCount[(i + 1)]; /*Get the value of the next position in the
+								  array; since i hasn't incremented yet,
+								  it's i+1*/
 	}
 	return 0;
 }