note 67261 added to function.feof

I really thought that the feof() was TRUE when the logical file pointer is a EOF. but no ! we need to read and get an empty record before the eof() reports TRUE. So $fp = fopen('test.bin','rb'); while(!feof($fp)) { $c = fgetc($fp); // ... do something with $c echo ftell($fp), ","; } echo 'EOF!'; prints for two time the last byte position. If our file length is 5 byte this code prints 0,1,2,3,4,5,5,EOF! Because of this, you have to do another check to verify if fgetc really reads another byte (to prevent error on "do something with $c" ^_^). To prevent errors you have to use this code $fp = fopen('test.bin','rb'); while(!feof($fp)) { $c = fgetc($fp); if($c === false) break; // ... do something with $c } but this is the same of $fp = fopen('test.bin','rb'); while(($c = fgetc($fp))!==false) { // ... do something with $c } Consequently feof() is simply useless. Before write this note I want to submit this as a php bug but one php developer said that this does not imply a bug in PHP itself (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35136&edit=2). If this is not a bug I think that this need at least to be noticed. Sorry for my bad english. Bye ;) ---- Server IP: 213.92.11.19 Probable Submitter: 151.56.79.171 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.feof.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/67261 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/67261 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/67261 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php