Subj : File.readln() not returning string occasionally
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 17 2009 01:54 pm

  Re: File.readln() not returning string occasionally
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Aug 17 2009 11:47 am

 >   Re: File.readln() not returning string occasionally
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Aug 17 2009 00:44:26
 >
 >  >  > File.readln() returns undefined when end of file is reached.
 >
 > What's weird is that what I was seeing doesn't seem to be consistent.
 > There were times when I could read an entire text file without problems,
 > and then when reading one particular text file, the script exited with the
 > error that my file line variable had no properties.  With File.readln()
 > returning undefined when the end of file is reached, wouldn't a script exit
 > with that error every time if it doesn't check the type of what readln()
 > returned?
 >
 > I also had my file reading code in a loop that checked File's eof property
 > (i.e., while (!inFile.eof)).

That might depend on the file being read.

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