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Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead?

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On 2014-03-31, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> "Kaz Kylheku" <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote in message 
> news:20140331112157.632@kylheku.com...
>> On 2014-03-31, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>>>> End-of-file checking in C is a bit funny, because you only get an
>>>> eof status after attempting to read input.
>>>
>>> Seems to me that Pascal is funny, in that it tests EOF before reading
>>> the end of file.
>>
>> In the Pascal wrong, this design is acknowledged as being wrong because 
>> it's
>> not repeated Wirth's successors to Pascal like Oberon and Modula 2.
>>
>> Modula 2 calls streams "channels".  A read operation produces a result
>> which is tested afterward. For instance, ReadChar tries to read a 
>> character
>> and store it to a CHAR location via a VAR parameter. Afer ReacChar,
>> you have to call ReadResult on the channel. Only if that result is 
>> allRight
>> was the character read successfully.
>
> Wrong or not, the Pascal design is far simpler to use. For example, I can 

Simple redeems wrong?

> write an outline file-processing loop right now:
>
> while (!eof(f)) {

So we are not at EOF. Well, how *far* are we from EOF? Can we read, say, 512
bytes, without having to bother checking the result?

As soon as we have to check something about the read result, the !eof(f)
check was superfluous.

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How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? rivkaumiller@gmail.com - 2014-03-30 19:04 -0700
  Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-03-30 22:31 -0400
    Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? rivkaumiller@gmail.com - 2014-03-30 19:43 -0700
      Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-03-30 23:09 -0400
  Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? rivkaumiller@gmail.com - 2014-03-30 19:35 -0700
  Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? rivkaumiller@gmail.com - 2014-03-30 19:47 -0700
    Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-31 11:53 +0100
      Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-31 17:50 +0000
        Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-31 18:55 +0000
          Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-31 22:51 +0100
            Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-31 22:46 +0000
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                Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-04-01 17:19 +0100
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                Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-03 00:05 +0000
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  Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-30 22:49 -0400
  Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-30 22:58 -0400
    Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? rivkaumiller@gmail.com - 2014-03-31 09:10 -0700
      Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-31 12:25 -0400
      Re: How to modify ((c=getchar())!=NULL) to use fscanf or scanf instead? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-31 10:56 -0700
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