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"Rich Churcher" <churcher@ihug.com.au> wrote in message news:m3sndd34om.fsf@ihug.com.au...
| "Chris \( Val \)" <chrisvalNOSPAM@NOSPAMbigpond.com.au> writes:
|
| > Hi Wayne, when using the bitwise operator to perform extraction,
|
| Er, that's the stream extraction operator :o)
|
|
| > it will terminate it's reading upon any whitespace it encounters and
| > then move to the next appropriate block of data.
|
| ...unless noskipws is used.

'OK'

| [ snip ]
| >     if (!instream)
| >       {
| >         cout << "Input file opening failed.\n";
| >         EXIT_FAILURE;
|
| Don't you mean,
|
|   exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
|
| ?

OOP's...

| >       }
| >
| >     if (!outstream)
| >       {
| >         cout << "Output file opening failed.\n";
| >         EXIT_FAILURE;
| >       }
| >
| >     while (!instream.eof( ))
|
| No, don't do that. eof() only returns true after there has been an
| attempt to read past the end of file. Instead, you can test for
| success or failure of the input operation:
|
|   while( getline( instream, Record[ Count ], ',' ) )
|   {
|     // ...

Thank's Rich, that looks much better.
Chris Val


| [ examples not compiled or tested ]
|
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