File pointer lists file twice?

Hey,

Thanks ahead of time for any help you can give me on a problem Im having.


I have a UNIX C program that assigns a text list to a file pointer name "DirListPtr". Every time I run the program to go through the file, it lists the last entry in the text list twice.

I am stumped, any ideas?

The program uses the statement to go through the file.

Code:

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while ((feof(DirListPtr)) == 0)

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Thanks again,

Willz99ta

Check the FAQ: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284351

I dont think I would ever figured that out...Thanks!


Willz99ta

basically what the tutorial said is that when you read from the file, do not use feof() to check for the end-of-file. Instead use fgets() to fetch from the file, line by line and check the return value of fgets(). fgets() will return null on reading the end-of-file.

so you file read loop would be

Code:

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char line[100];

while ((fgets(line,sizeof(line),DirListPtr)) != NULL)
{
    /*Process "line"*/
}

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