Subj : Re: fgets function behaves weird
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Thu Oct 14 2004 10:15 am

Erwin wrote:

>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 suspect that where that happens, the text file is missing a lf.
Or perhaps is cr/lf/lf or some other oddity.
Double check your text file with a hex viewer (frhed works well)
Search for 0a or 0d and make sure both are always present.
(if you search for 0d 0a you will only find what you are _not_ looking
for)
To speed up the search, you could have your program report the error
line, then search for that text in frhed (assuming the X value is
somewhat unique)

If you are looking for robustness, then open the file in binary mode,
and write your own replacement fgets that handles missing (and extra)
delimiters.

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