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Re: getline() doesn't seem to work?
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: getline() doesn't seem to work?
- From: jhpb at sarto dot gaithersburg dot md dot us (Joseph H. Buehler)
- Date: 30 Jan 1998 08:18:59 -0500
- References: <January_30_1998_at_05_15_43_21124_Joseph_H._Buehler@altera>
Adrian Miranda <ade@psg.com> writes:
> I am using egcs 1.0.1 on HP-UX 10.20.
>
> I don't know if this is a bug in getline, or just a bug in my
> understanding of getline. When I have the following program just
> reading from my terminal, I have to hit control-D twice before the
> loop exits. It appears that the first time I hit control-D, getline
> does not even return, it's only when I hit CONTROL-D a second time
> that getline returns false, and the loop exits.
>
>
> #include <iostream.h>
> main() {
> char word[100];
> while(cin.getline(word, 100, '\n')) {
> cout << "Got another line" << endl;
> }
> }
Same thing happens on my linux machine.
Joe Buehler