Escape character for tab

Question

I am using '\t' to try and match tabs on the input, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any thoughts?

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    double n_tabs, n_newlines, n_blanks;
    
    int nextChar = getchar();
    
    while (nextChar != EOF)
    {
        if (nextChar == '\t') //Does not appear to work.
        {
            ++n_tabs; 
        }
        else if (nextChar == '\n')
        {
            ++n_newlines;
        }
        else if (nextChar == ' ')
        {
            ++n_blanks;
        }
        
        nextChar = getchar();
    }
    
    printf("# Tabs %d\n", n_tabs);
    printf("# Newlines %d\n", n_newlines);
    printf("# Blanks %d", n_blanks);

    return 0;
}

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>

// minor changes to make it work

int main()
{
    int n_tabs, n_newlines, n_blanks;
    
    n_tabs = n_newlines = n_blanks = 0;
    
    char nextChar = getchar();
    
    while (nextChar != EOF)
    {
        if (nextChar == '\t')
        {
            ++n_tabs;
        }
        else if (nextChar == '\n')
        {
            ++n_newlines;
        }
        else if (nextChar == ' ')
        {
            ++n_blanks;
        }
        
        nextChar = getchar();
    }
    
    printf("# Tabs %d\n", n_tabs);
    printf("# Newlines %d\n", n_newlines);
    printf("# Blanks %d", n_blanks);

    return 0;
}

Answer 2

you can compare the ascii value on both sides