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Setting EOF

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Started by Zaei November 09, 2001 11:31 PM

2 comments, last by Zaei 22 years, 5 months ago

Zaei

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November 09, 2001 11:31 PM

Does anyone know how to set EOF in a file using C Style File IO? Z.

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November 09, 2001 11:32 PM

Can''t you just fprintf(EOF)?

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Null and Void

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November 10, 2001 12:00 AM

No, Oluseyi, you can''t. Remember that EOF is not allowed to be 0-255, so writing it out as a single byte is somewhat hard. The POSIX standard has an ''ftruncate'' function. In Windows you can use OpenFile, SetFilePointer, and SetEndOfFile together.

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Zaei

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November 10, 2001 02:37 PM

Thanks much!

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