Re: Reading text file with CStdioFile.ReadString
 
"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote in message 
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Ed Ardzinski wrote:
I'm trying to read a text file using CStdioFile, and finally got it to 
work about right...not sure what I was missing, but eventually I got all 
the lines into a string and was able to set the window text of my 
CRichEditView with this
CStdioFile file;
file.Open(fname,CFile::modeRead|CFile::typeText);
CString stext;
CString buffer;
while (file.ReadString(stext) != FALSE)
{
buffer += stext;
buffer += "\n";
file.ReadString(stext);
}
file.Close();
SetWindowText(buffer);
The issues I have is that the LAST line of the text file seems to get an 
extra space added to the beginning of the line.  Given I struggled to get 
this far in what *should* be a near trivial exercise, I must be missing 
something.
From what I read in the documentation, the CString version of ReadString 
does NOT return the end of line character.  So that's why I add it.  But 
why would the LAST line get and extra space at the START of the line, and 
no other line is changed???
Thanks for any insight.  VC++ 6.0 on Win XP home, if that matters...
Ed:
Why are you calling ReadString() twice? Seems to me you are capturing only 
every other line?
Personally, I do not like the idiom "!= FALSE'. I think it in fact works, 
but "== TRUE" is not guaranteed to work because TRUE is defined to be 1 
and other non-zero values might indicate a true value.
David Wilkinson
What's wrong with simply writing
while (file.ReadString(stext)...
Sorry, superfluous boolean testing is one of my hot buttons. 
  
  
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