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From: mjschmel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael J. Schmelzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: fscanf and EOF in TurboC
Message-ID: <2717@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 88 05:16:46 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Keywords: fscanf EOF Turbo C

Hello everybody! I have a real problem. (?!?)
I am using Turbo C to read through a "master file" which contains
the names of all of the files to be read into my program.
I'm using fscanf(fp, "%s", filename);
Here's the problem: I don't know how to test for EOF in this
situation. For some reason, it seems that fscanf WON'T put the
file pointer at EOF when the last name is read; it will just keep
returning the last name in the file. ( feof() doesn't work!) 
I've built a workaround:
the last line in the master file MUST be
    END
I use the conditional
    while (strcmp(filename, "END")) {
	...
	}
It works, but it's just not a very robust way of doing things.
Any ideas how I can my program more robust for the end user?
Is this a quirky implementation of fscanf?
Thanks a lot!!

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Mike Schmelzer mjschmel@phoenix!princeton.edu
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