On 18/9/00 4:45 pm, James Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm reading a binary file a character at a time and looking for the
> end-of-file marker so I know when to stop reading but the read terminates
> before the entire file is read. There seems to be an eof marker in the
> file that is not at the end of the file. CharToNum(EOF) returns a 4
> which could appear at places other than the end of the file, right?
>
> Is the following correct?
>
> repeat forever
> read from file sourcefile for 1 character
> if the result is "eof" then exit repeat
> put it into var1
> end repeat
I'm not quite sure why you want to do this, why not:
read from file tSourceFile until eof
If you really do want to read char by char for some reason, you need to
alter line 3 above to be:
if it is eof then exit repeat
Eof is a constant so can't be put in quotes.
Note that reading and writing to files is (except in a few special cases)
generally easiest done with the URL commands. E.g.:
put url ("binfile:"&tSourceFile) into tVariable
Regards,
Kevin
> Thanks,
> Jim Parker
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