Problem eof()

[geek@02]

Hi!
I've got bit of a problem here:

.......
while(!sfs.eof())
{
  Efs.open("Elib.txt", ios::in);
  .......
  Efs.seekg(0);
  cout<<Efs.tellg()<<endl;
  while(!Efs.eof())
  {
    char* Ewrds = new char[20];
    Efs.getline(Ewrds, 20, '\n');
    if(!strcmp(wrdsrc, Ewrds))
    {
      found=true;
      break;
    }
  }
  Efs.close();
		
  if(found)
  {
    cout<< "Found";
  }else
  {
    cout<< "Not Found";
  }
}
......

In the above code, when strcmp() returns zero and the inner while loop breaks before the Efs reachs it's eof, all seems to work fine. But when the inner loop iterate until the eof is found, in the next iteration of the outer loop, tellg() returns (-1) and the inner while’s efo check returns non-zero. Could anyone please point out how to fix this?
Thanks.

[Micko]

First of all you shpuld read this:
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284351
and then this:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...558#post444558

And then we'll see what to do next!

[7stud]

Hi,

...before the Efs reachs it's eof, all seems to work fine.

Efs is a stream object and when it hits eof, the eof error flag is set for the stream object. Closing the file doesn't reset the stream object's error flags. So, when you reopen the file, the stream object Efs still has the eof error flag set--essentially you are still at the end of the file. You can reset Efs using the clear() method:

Efs.clear();

[geek@02]

Thanks 7stud. I will try that.