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From: John Potter <jpotter@falcon.lhup.edu>
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
Date: 18 Jun 2003 11:47:12 -0400
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On 17 Jun 2003 13:51:19 -0400, kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote:

 > The second problem is with:

 >     while ( cin.get() != '\n' ) ...

 > if end of file or any error occurs, you have an endless loop.  As an
 > unrepentant Pascal programmer, I would write:

 >     while ( std::cin.peek() != EOF && std::cin.peek() != '\n') ...

;-)

 > More typical C++ idioms might be:

 >     char                ch ;
 >     while ( cin.get( ch ) && ch != '\n' ) ...

 > or:

 >     int                 ch ;
 >     while ( (ch = cin.get()) != EOF && ch != '\n' ) ...

 > or, if you don't like uninitialized variables (as I don't):

 >     for ( int ch = cin.get() ;
 >               ch != EOF && ch != '\n' ;
 >               ch = cin.get() ) ...

Nice.  Or

    cin.ignore(INT_MAX, '\n');


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