Re: VS2005 C++ Express basic_istream::get(buf, size, delim) bug
Hello Terry!
Terry G wrote:
Is this a compiler bug? Does your C++ compiler produce the same results?
#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
int main() {
static char Line[1024];
while (std::cin.get(Line, sizeof(Line), '\n')) {
std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), '\n');
std::cout << ':' << Line << std::endl;
}
} // main
It seems that cin.get(char*, size_t, '\n') "fails" on a blank line.
As it should do: if no character is stored, this should set failbit.
g++ has the same behavior if I strip the carriage returns from the line
ends.
Why am I not surprised...?
I would have expected it to succeed with gcount() == 0.
Read 27.6.1.3/8-9: this should change your expectation.
I guess I've been using getline(cin, str) and unknowingly avoided this.
.... or you have used cin.getline(buffer, sizeof(buffer), '\n') and
unknowingly avoided this.
How do I fix this code, then, without using std::string?
What do you want to achive? ... and why do you want to avoid
std::string?
Good luck, Denise
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