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Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk

From	"R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk
Date	2019-11-21 20:39 +0100
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JJ,

> IMO, that's not a quirk. ReadAll() does what it's described:

Nope.

> "Returns all characters from an input stream."

Correct.  That would normally mean that the result would be an empty string, 
not an "reading past the end of file" error.

Besides, even the error is wrong: If there is nothing to read why is it than 
(forcefully) trying to do so anyway ?

> It doesn't say "if any".

Please, do *not* go the "they have not explicitily said that ..." road.  You 
see, the reverse is also true, with the end result being that pretty-much 
anything goes, even random results that have nothing to do with the provided 
filename

Heck, it would even include deleting the file or converting its contents 
into runes.

> So, if you make it read an empty file, it'll assume that there's data in
> the file, but there is none. Thus the triggered exception.

Than explain to me why it can stop exactly at the end of /any/ contents, no 
matter how short or long, but is too stupid to detect a string-length of 
zero.   That simply does not make any sense.

No kiddo, as far as I can tell you're currently just trolling.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 00:00 +0700
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 12:50 -0500
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 20:39 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 15:04 -0500
        Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 21:46 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 16:31 -0500
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 09:23 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 09:14 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:58 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:13 +0700
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:47 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 10:10 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 18:37 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 18:40 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 09:19 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-23 10:09 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 17:36 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:10 +0700

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