Re: fstream ?

From: Howard (alicebt_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:04:09 GMT

"Karl Heinz Buchegger" <kbuchegg@gascad.at> wrote in message
news:415BF88E.F62E6072@gascad.at...
>
> Best is often: read with getline, and look at the last character in the
string.
> If it is a '\n', discard it.
>

I've got a question on comparing a char against '\n'. Since on some
systems, '\n' is represented by #13#10 (a CR/LF pair), what happens when you
compare a char with it? Is there some internal mechanism that actually
compares two bytes instead of just one?

-Howard

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