Subj : fgets function behaves weird
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Erwin
Date : Thu Oct 14 2004 01:27 pm

Hello all!

Some piece of software i have to maintain uses the function fgets to read a 
text file (how nice). The problem is that after some lines the first 
character, being a ", is not read!

A text file as below is read.
"0001457569900268" "00014575" "1" "1" "07/17/2002" "J"
"000145756990027X" "00014575" "1" "1" "07/17/2002" "J"
"0001457569900281" "00014575" "1" "1" "07/17/2002" "J"
with the following function call:
    if( fgets(sBuffer,MAX_RECORD_SIZE,pFp) != NULL )

All the lines are delimited with a CR-LF (0D-0A). The fgets function reads 
until the LF and theCR is removed (borland implementation).

When inspecting sBuffer most of the time a line is read like:
"000145756990027X" "00014575" "1" "1" "07/17/2002" "J"

However, sometimes a line is read like:
000145756990027X" "00014575" "1" "1" "07/17/2002" "J"

Whats going on? Is this some sort of bug in the boreland fgets function?

I searched on the internet for quite some time but did not find anything 
related to this behaviour.

Thanks for any input, Erwin

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