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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:54:24 +0200
From: Hanno Stehling <hstehling AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Problem with ifstream.eof()
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ifstream.eof() returns FALSE, although the current position in the file
is EOF. After reading one more byte, ifstream.eof() returns TRUE, but,
of course, ifstream.good() returns FALSE.

example code:
Let's say "test.dat" is a file with a size of exactly 10 Bytes.

ifstream f1("test.dat", ios::in | ios::bin);
unsigned char buffer[10];
f1.read(buffer, 10);

Now, I think, f1.eof() should return TRUE, but it returns FALSE.

f1.read(buffer, 1);

Now, after reading one Byte too much, it returns TRUE.


Thanks for answering,
HST