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Article #2635Re: string::getline() and null lines
From: Steve Clamage
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:18
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:18
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Art Kaufmann <afk@elsegundoca.attgis.com> writes: >The following is an excerpt from the April WP, p 21-25, section >21.1.1.10.8: > -- c == delim for the next available input character c(in which case the > input character is extracted from is, but not appended to str). > If the function appends no characters, it calls is.setstate(failbit), > which may throw ios_base::failure(27.4.4.3). >My question is: Why indicate a failure when no characters are appended? The wording has been modified in the September draft to say an error is indicated when no characters have been *extracted*. -- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu. Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!in1.uu.net!bounce-back Date: 18 Nov 95 03:18:26 GMT Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au From: clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: string::getline() and null lines X-Original-Date: 18 Nov 1995 03:05:36 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <48jii0$p67@engnews1.eng.sun.com> References: <48j00a$la8@rap.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #21 (NOV) X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUBMK1QjeEDnX0m9pzZAQFEKQF+NTRH9wRBEd2huoQ3r8E1jmnTjngUngqU z9HN+eTAGP4lNpTQGYtacqQ7GMPv1KDP =sTYf