Re^4: eof not recognised when applying diamond operator to invocation arguments?

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Any compelling reason you can't use the more direct version you mentioned yourself elsewhere in the thread?

Yes ... I need to use nested loops because I am reading the input file, parsing the input line and - if and when I find a certain pattern - read 100 lines further. If I use the direct version I will keep losing one line because the inside loop and the outside loop both read an line one after the other.

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