From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T13:35:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to determine EOF with sysread?

On Sunday 07 July 2002 08:58 pm, Jim Freeze wrote:
> Hi:
>
> How does one determine the eof when using
> sysread. The example below seems to indicate
> that using #eof? corrupts the file pointer.

So don't use eof?. Use the EOFError that sysread raises
at the end of file:

buff_size = File.stat(ARGV[0]).blksize
File.open(ARGV[0]) { |f|
  begin
    loop { buff = f.sysread(buff_size); print buff }
  rescue EOFError
    print "\nDone.\n"
  end
}


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