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- From: axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Streams and eof()
- Date: 05 Mar 1996 09:40:45 PST
- Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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- References: <199603010214.VAA16273@pleiades.cs.rpi.edu> <KANZE.96Mar4112305@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>
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- kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) wrote:
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- >In article <199603010214.VAA16273@pleiades.cs.rpi.edu>
- >axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) writes:
-
- >|> 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?
- [...]
- >|> 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.
-
- >You might want to try the function `peek'. I tend to use this function
- >a lot. Basically, this forces a look-ahead, which will set the eof if
- >there is nothing more there.
-
- But I think that you can use this only with text streams, not with
- binary streams (You would not be able to tell a eof-char from an
- ordinary binary char).
- ===
- Axel Thimm <axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- Freie Universitaet Berlin
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