Re: getline and CR, LF, CR/LF, VS/Linux

Gene Bushuyev wrote:
"Ian Semmel" <isemmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O27xtnNhFHA.2916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What is the correct method for handling text files which may (or may not) have a CR character at the end of each line ?

There seems to be a difference the windows/linux VS/gcc handle the situation.


My program works OK under VS, but in linux it appears to read the first line then returns EOF ?


Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix - all three have different EOL characters. The STL streams work correctly on all platforms as long as you read the text files in the format that corresponds to that platform. If you're writing in one platform format and try reading in another, you are on your own. Either process EOL yourself, or convert text files, for example, using dos2unix (unix2dos) utils.

Gene 



Thanks. Another example of the NSTL (Nearly Standard Template Library).

I changed my program to call stream.get( c ) and strip out all CR characters. There might be a better way but that works.
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