Thread: Detecting EOF in stream

Hi. My problem is that i am trying to read in data in blocks. but i want to make sure i'm not reading past end of the files. so i am trying to detect eof
my code started as this

Code:

int ReadToBuf(char *buffer, int Amount, fstream &Stream)
{
	int AmountRead = 0;
	char CharBuf;
	if (Stream.is_open())
	
	{
		cout<<"File is open\n";
	
		while ( (AmountRead < Amount - 1) )
		   
		{
		   
		   
		   	Stream.get(CharBuf);// (CharBuf, 1);
			buffer[AmountRead] = CharBuf;
			AmountRead++;	
			
	   	   
		 
	   }
		
			return AmountRead;
	
	}
	return -1;
}

Then in an attemp to detect EOF i did

Code:

int ReadToBuf(char *buffer, int Amount, fstream &Stream)
{
	int AmountRead = 0;
	char CharBuf;
	if (Stream.is_open())
	
	{
		cout<<"File is open\n";
	
		while ( (AmountRead < Amount - 1) && (  !(Stream.rdstate() & ios_base::eofbit) != 0) )
		   
		{
		   
		   
		   	Stream.get(CharBuf);// (CharBuf, 1);
			buffer[AmountRead] = CharBuf;
			AmountRead++;	
			
	   	   
		 
	   }
		
			return AmountRead;
	
	}
	return -1;
}

In my attemp to fix, it can no longer read data, so i'm wondering how to detect that i have reached EOF. i've looked over fstream's class declaration and its ancestors, the function eof() didn't work either.

one way to do it (though not suggested) is to do file.peek() and test if it's -1, that will mean you didn't read any data. This isn't the best way to do it though, as it makes it test twice each loop in the buffer, but i've found that it works.

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oh yah, nevermind