note 51125 added to function.fgets

It seems to me that the main example for fgets() is misleading. This example, used as written, will process all the code in the "while" once for each line of the file, and once again after feof() becomes true after the fgets(). The "echo $buffer" statement gets executed even when $buffer has not been returned. Upon investigation I found that $buffer is indeed set to false when the fgets() attempts to read at EOF. This would seem appropriate: <?php $handle = fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r"); while ($buffer = fgets($handle,4096)) { echo $buffer; } fclose($handle); ?> The original example could be coded as: <?php $handle = fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r"); while (!feof($handle)) { $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096); if (!feof($handle)) { echo $buffer; } } fclose($handle); ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51125 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51125&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51125&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51125&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51125&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51125&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51125&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php