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.
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