gcc not compiling

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On 10/31/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just getting started in programming C. My first attempt:
> #include < stdio.h>
> void main () {
>     printf("\nHello World!\n");
> }
>
> Threw this error:
> [dotancohen at localhost ~]$ gcc hello.c
> hello.c:1:20: error:  stdio.h: No such file or directory
> hello.c: In function 'main':
> hello.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
> function 'printf'
> hello.c:2: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int'
> hello.c:4:2: warning: no newline at end of file

you have a space between "<" and "stdio" which shouldn't be there.  it
should just read
#include <stdio.h>

i.e., the file it can't find it " stdio.h"