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Checks if the end of the given file stream has been reached.

[edit] Parameters

stream	-	the file stream to check

[edit] Return value

nonzero value if the end of the stream has been reached, otherwise 0

[edit] Notes

This function only reports the stream state as reported by the most recent I/O operation, it does not examine the associated data source. For example, if the most recent I/O was a fgetc, which returned the last byte of a file, feof returns zero. The next fgetc fails and changes the stream state to end-of-file. Only then feof returns non-zero.

In typical usage, input stream processing stops on any error; feof and ferror are then used to distinguish between different error conditions.

[edit] Example

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { const char* fname = "/tmp/unique_name.txt"; // or tmpnam(NULL); int is_ok = EXIT_FAILURE; FILE* fp = fopen(fname, "w+"); if (!fp) { perror("File opening failed"); return is_ok; } fputs("Hello, world!\n", fp); rewind(fp); int c; // note: int, not char, required to handle EOF while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) // standard C I/O file reading loop putchar(c); if (ferror(fp)) puts("I/O error when reading"); else if (feof(fp)) { puts("End of file is reached successfully"); is_ok = EXIT_SUCCESS; } fclose(fp); remove(fname); return is_ok; }

Possible output:

Hello, world! End of file is reached successfully

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