What is the importance of this statement

I’m just getting started with Codechef and just solved the TEST problem. While my solution was accepted, I looked for answers submitted by top coders. In the solution submitted by @victoralin10, there’s the following line:
while( scanf("%d",&n) == 1 and n != 42 )printf("%d\n",n);

I understand why n!=42 has been used, but what is the significance of scanf("%d",&n) == 1?
Thanks

Scanf returns the number of values successfully inputted. scanf("%d",&n) ==1 means that there was an n, and we have not reached the end of the file.

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The given code is:

while(1 == scanf("%d", &n) && n != 42) {
    printf("%d\n", n);
}

So you have a problem understanding the logical expression i.e. 1 == scanf("%d", &n) && n != 42 .

  1. scanf() high-level I/O function in C/C++ which returns an integer value == the number of input read from the STDIN stream, and it returns -1 when some error occurs while reading the data from STDIN or when EOF condition is matched.
    Refer to scanf() Documentation.

  2. Also, pay attention to the way expression is written i.e. first the value is read using scanf() and then it is checking n != 42 or not.