Re: Visual C++ 2005 basic_istream::get(buf, size, delim) bug?

From:
cbarron3@ix.netcom.com (Carl Barron)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
6 Oct 2006 00:03:18 -0400
Message-ID:
<1hmr7ru.176wq9r1j2aivrN%cbarron3@ix.netcom.com>
kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.fr> wrote:

Terry G wrote:

static char Line[1024];
     while (std::cin.get(Line, sizeof(Line), '\n')) {
        std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), '\n');
        // Process line.
     }

James Kanze wrote:
What happens if the program encounters a line of more than 1023
characters?


My intent was to only process the first 1023 characters and
then ignore the rest.


Which is exactly what the code does; I understand that. I was
responding to the claim that ignore would never ignore more than
one character, not questionning your code.


 another approach is to create a class holding all the needed
data [except stream &] and creating an operator >> () for the class
doing exzctly what you want with streambuf functions, setting eof and
fail upon actual reading of 0 chars.
// line_reader.h
#ifndef LINE_READER_H_
#define LINE_READER_H_
#include <iosfwd>

class line_reader
{
        char *buf;
        std::size_t len;
        char delim;
public:
        line_reader(char *a,std::size_t b,char
c):buf(a),len(b),delim(c){--len;}
        std::istream & do_read(std::istream &in);
};

inline std::istream & operator >> (std::istream &in,line_reader &line)
{
        return line.do_read(in);
}
#endif
// line_reader.cp
#include "line_reader.h"
#include <streambuf>
#include <istream>

std::istream & line_reader::do_read(std::istream &in)
{
        if(!in)
                return in;
        std::streambuf *sb = in.rdbuf();
        char *p = buf;
        char *q = buf +len;
        int c;
        
        while((c=sb->sbumpc())!=EOF && p!=q && c!=delim)
        {
                *p++ = c;
        }
        *p = '\0';
        if(p==q)
        {
                while((c=sb->sbumpc())!=EOF && c!=delim) {}
        }
        if(c==EOF)
        {

in.setstate(std::ios_base::eofbit|std::ios_base::failbit);
        }
        return in;
}

a little 'low level' perhaps but it reads upto size-1 chars or a until a
delim is found which ever occurs first, if size-1 chars are read without
a '\n' it eats everything upto and including the next delim unless it
hits end of file...

usuage is simple
        char buf[1024];
        line_reader reader(buf,1024,'\n');
        while(in_stream >> reader)
                process(buf);
                                

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