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From: 100065.270@compuserve.com (Carlyle Sutphen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to write end of file character into file??!
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:06:41 GMT
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:
>Dwight Tovey (dwight@micron.net) wrote:
>[stuff deleted]
>: data_f = fopen( "input", "r" );
>: while( !feof( data_f )) {
>: fread(....)
>: .....
>: }
>: fclose( data_f );
>Nope, you'd be better off writing
>data_f = fopen( "input", "r" );
>while( fread(....), !feof( data_f ) ) {
> .....
>}
>fclose( data_f )
>And don't ever call me pedantic ! :-)
??? Why? Then even if fread was successfull in reading any data at the
end of the file, if we asked for more than was read, the body of the
while would be skipped! That is where the processing of the data read
will be put. He had it right but needs to realize that EOF is a
condition, not data.