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Hi,

This is not again the problem with the 'failbit' :-) It's something
else...  The function 'string::getline()' is declared like this:

  template <class charT, class IS_traits, class STR_traits, class STR_alloc>
  basic_istream<charT, IS_traits>
    &basic_string<charT, STR_traits, STR_alloc>::getline(
      basic_istream<chart, IS_traits> &in,
      basic_string<charT, STR_traits, STR_alloc> &str,
      charT delim = IS_traits::newline())

Why is the 'delim' argument declared to be 'charT' instead of
'IS_traits::int_type'? If 'delim' is a 'IS_traits::int_type' the
following would be possible:

  istream &in; // initialized somewhere
  string  rest_of_file;
  getline(in, rest_of_file, ios_traits<char>::eof());

This would read (if nothing else than the declaration of 'getline()' is
modified) the rest of the file into the string ('rest_of_file' in this
case).
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