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From: kenney@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Kenney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: istream problem
Message-ID: <1991May23.195530.8242@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 19:55:30 GMT
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In article <1991May23.181402.7912@milton.u.washington.edu> kenney@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Kenney) writes:
>I've been trying to get the hang of C++ streams and I've run into an
>anoying problem.  I'm trying to read a stream to EOF, rewind to the
>beginning and read it again, ie:
> [ example deleted ]
>The problem is, the second while loop never iterates, in.get() returns
>0.  I used in.tellg() to insure that the stream is repositioned, and it
>is.  Am I missing something obvious?
>
>Please email your responses.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike Kenney
>UW Applied Physics Lab
>mikek@apl.washington.edu
>mike@apl-at.apl.washington.edu
>

It was pointed out to me that seekg() does not reset the "eofbit", I need
to call clear().

Thanks to all who replied.

Mike Kenney
UW Applied Physics Lab
mikek@apl.washington.edu
mike@apl-at.apl.washington.edu