[Gambas-user] EOF problem

[Doriano Blengino]

Les Hardy ha scritto:
> Hi Ed,
> I figured it out.
> First of all, depending how the text file was emptied/created, the 
> contents may not be truely empty.
> Gedit for example leaves the 0A (end-of-line) character in the 'empty' 
> file. This is recognised by eof() as a character, so, end-of-file is not 
> found.
> I am not sure if this can be considered a bug in Gambas, but it does 
> mean an eof() is only good for preventing read errors, and is not 
> reliable for testing if a file is empty.
>   
Just breaking in to say that a file with a EOL in it is not an empty 
file - it is a file with an empty line in it...
Given such a file, at first EOF is false; doing a LINE INPUT an empty 
line is read, then EOF turns true. Or, at least, it should go this way.

Regards,

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Doriano Blengino

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