Word counting by Kernighan won't compile =(

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Hi,
  Sorry for asking this question here. I just thought
that this might be a platform specific issue=). I'm
reading this book(The C Programming Language 2nd
Edition by Brian W. Kernighan. Upon reading the book,
I came up with this example code. It says, it will
count the number of words, lines and characters in the
command line, until I send an EOF signal. I copied it
verbatim and tried compiling it with plain "cc
myprog.c" 

It exited with errors:

word.c: In function `main':
word.c:17: error: invalid lvalue in assignment

Any idea what this means?

Thanks.



Here's the code:
#include<stdio.h>

#define IN      1
#define OUT     0

main()
{
   int c, nl, nw, nc, state;

   state = OUT;
   nl = nw = nc = 0;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {

  ++nc;
  if (c == '\n')
    ++nl;
  if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c = '\t')
    state = OUT;
  else if (state == OUT) {
     state = IN;
     ++nw;
  }

}
 printf("%d %d %d\n", nl, nw, nc);
}




		
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