Posted by kicken on 06/14/05 04:06

Dave wrote:
> Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini (wwl@musensturm.de) decided we needed to
> hear...
>
>>Hallo!
>>
>>The code here outputs '0'. Why?
>>----------------------------
>>$filename = "test.dat";
>>if (!file_exists($filename)) {
>> touch($filename); // Create blank file
>> chmod($filename,0666);
>>}
>>$fp=fopen($filename,'r');
>>if ($fp && !feof($fp)) echo ftell($fp); // should output nothing!
>>fclose($fp);
>>----------------------------
>>Wolfgang
>
>
> Output of '0' is correct. EOF condition gets set on a read, not on
> an open, and you don't read from the file.

For a lengthy discussion on the feof topic, see this thread on devshed:
http://forums.devshed.com/t244304/s.html&highlight=feof

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