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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: How to write end of file character into file??!
Message-ID: <Dq9ny7.DJG@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:54:06 GMT
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In article <4l5le1$amd@is05.micron.net> dwight@micron.net writes:
>|> int ch;
>For a binary file, the EOF value can be a valid result from fgetc
No it can't. getc() et al return int, not char, and the value of EOF
is an integer outside the character range. That's why it's important
to declare the variable you read it into as int, as quoted above.
-- Richard
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