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- From: axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
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- Subject: Streams and eof()
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 20:43:31 GMT
- Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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- Hello,
-
- I have had a look in the April draft, but I think that there is a small
- ambiguity about eof() methods in streams.
- Is the eof-flag raised, when the end of the stream is reached, or when
- an attempt to move past this end is made? I think the most common
- practice is the latter, but the ANSI draft uses the former statement.
- Declaring the end of a stream as the first charachter _after_ the last
- character of the stream would rescue the expression, but wouldn't fit
- into a concept of an end. (Usually one thinks of an end as belonging to
- the whole)
- As I am rather convinced, that the eof is raised at an attempt to meove
- past the end, I'd like to ask how to check this in a binary file without
- having to perform a movement.
-
- Regards,
- Axel.
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- Axel Thimm <axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- Freie Universitaet Berlin
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