Problem with ios::flags

[Paulo da Silva]

Hi!
Please consider the following fragment

std::cin.exceptions(std::ios::failbit);
....
try
{ is.getline(p,ILEN);
...
}
catch (std::ios::failure const &problem)
{ if (WHAT HERE?)
{ // '\n' not found yet
}
else
{ // Real failure
}
}

How do I tell a real failure from just ILEN-2 chars already read but not
yet '\n'?

Thanks for any help.

[John Harrison]

Paulo da Silva wrote:

Hi!
Please consider the following fragment

std::cin.exceptions(std::ios::failbit);
...
try
{ is.getline(p,ILEN);
...
}
catch (std::ios::failure const &problem)
{ if (WHAT HERE?)
{ // '\n' not found yet
}
else
{ // Real failure
}
}

How do I tell a real failure from just ILEN-2 chars already read but not
yet '\n'?

Thanks for any help.

You mean ILEN-1 chars. If the fail bit is set there will either be
ILEN-1 chars or zero chars (not counting the null terminator) in p. So
you can test for that.

if (strlen(p) == ILEN-1)
{
}
else
{
}

Here's a good site that explains exactly what istream::getline does.

http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/de...tream::getline

It you haven't considered it already you should defintely think about
switching to the string version of getline

http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/de...2.html#getline

Might be no need to treat long lines as a special case then.

john

[Paulo da Silva]

John Harrison escreveu:

Paulo da Silva wrote:

>Hi!

....

>
You mean ILEN-1 chars

Of course ... I mistyped 2 ...
.. If the fail bit is set there will either be

ILEN-1 chars or zero chars (not counting the null terminator) in p. So
you can test for that.

if (strlen(p) == ILEN-1)
{
}
else
{
}

Thanks. Anyway I thought of a flags bit or something and was not sure if
strlen - zero terminated (or gcount()) is implementation independent
for this purpose.

>
Here's a good site that explains exactly what istream::getline does.

http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/de...tream::getline

Thanks.