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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to write end of file character into file??!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 17:09:39 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4lg9i8$8if@is05.micron.net>,
Dwight Tovey <dwight@micron.net> wrote:
> At any rate, what I was trying to point out (possibly not very well) is that
> testing for the EOF "value" can cause problems.
Only if your code is broken:
> char ch;
> FILE *fp
>
> fp = fopen( "foo", "r" );
> while(( ch = fgetc( fp) ) > 0 ) {
> putchar( ch );
> }
See, the correct change to this code is to replace "char ch" with "int ch",
as is described in the manuals.
Also, 0xFF is a valid text character. It's a lowercase y with dieresis.
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