From: "Oliver Aspelin" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: bug with ifstream? Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:44:37 +0100 Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Lines: 29 Message-ID: <7d0ja0$rsb@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra-uni2-c52-nc.rrz.uni-koeln.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, I'm using the following bit of code: ifstream data("words.dat"); while (!data.eof()) { string s; data >> s; if (s.length() > 0) { //... } } This works fine on a computer where it was compiled (= where djgpp is installed), but not on other computers. It seems, like data >> s doesn't do what I expect it to do (and what it does on the computer where it was compiled). It should read a string from the file linked to the data variable and proceed to the next line. When running on a machine without djgpp it doesn't read nor proceed so it'll never stop as data.eof() is never true. Does anybody know this error/bug? What do I do wrong and how can I correct it? Greetings, Oliver