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Re: Re: Re: Reading past EOF characters in tar files?

by Cubes (Pilgrim)
on Jul 24, 2001 at 09:04 UTC ( [id://99240]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Reading past EOF characters in tar files?
in thread Reading past EOF characters in tar files?

Without looking things up, I'm thinking that because the value being assigned (and thus the value of the assignment) is zero, the conditional is turning up false. I think what you really want to do is test the gotten char against the empty string.
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