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From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: help: problem with reading files
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:13:38 GMT
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Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in> wrote:

>hello,
>	i need help with a problem i have with reading files created by ms-dos 
>edit in djgpp v2. the relevant part of my c++ code is:

>ofstream fin(datafile);
>while (!fin.eof())
>	fin >> x1 >> x2;

/IN/put from an /O/fstream???

>on i execution i find that the last line is read twice. is there some way 
>i can avoid this problem?

Well, assuming that the above was a transcription error, just check
for eof() a hell of a lot, in my experience. A common problem is code
like this:

while(!fin.eof()) {
	skip_whitespace(fin);
	fin >> a;
	fin >> b;
	fin >> c;
}

If this is fed a file with trailing whitespace, it does not return eof
after the last record is read, so the loop executes again - and as
there is now an eof condition after skip_whitespace, the three fins do
nothing, leaving the same set of values in a/b/c...

Regards,


ABW
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