Is using a while block to do nothing a bad thing?

Question

I\'m currently working through the excercises in \'The C Programming Language\'. Here\'s one of my solutions:

int c;

while ((c=getchar()) != EOF) {

if (c == \         


        

Answer 1

I've used code like this. I don't think there's really any reason not to use it if the situation warrants it.