Re: Reading text file with CStdioFile.ReadString
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
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