I am using getline(stream, string) to read lines from a text file.
How do I tell if there is a newline for the line just read?

John.

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In article <eatt5q$811$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, John Grabner
<grabnerj@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> I am using getline(stream, string) to read lines from a text file.
> How do I tell if there is a newline for the line just read?
>   
  It extracts chars from the stream and places them in the string untli
one of the following occurs
   it finds a '\n'  [does not modify stream]
   if attempts to read past the stream [end of file] [sets
stream.eofbit,might also set failbit not sure]
   it the string will grow beyond its max_size[ sets stream.fail_bit]

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John Grabner wrote:
> I am using getline(stream, string) to read lines from a text file.
> How do I tell if there is a newline for the line just read?

One way to find this out is to read char by char, IOW not to use
std::getline.


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Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
> John Grabner wrote:
>> I am using getline(stream, string) to read lines from a text
>> file.  How do I tell if there is a newline for the line just
>> read?

> One way to find this out is to read char by char, IOW not to
> use std::getline.

You don't have to read every character char by char.  Something
like:

     while ( source.peek() != EOF ) {
         std::string         line ;
         if ( ! std::getline( source, line ) ) {
             //  Non-terminated line...
         }
         //  ...
     }

should work, I think.

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