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authorMorten Engvoldsen <morten.engvoldsen@nokia.com>2009-05-08 11:02:01 (GMT)
committerMorten Engvoldsen <morten.engvoldsen@nokia.com>2009-05-08 11:02:55 (GMT)
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Added further explanation on the note about stdin and QTextsStream::atEnd()
Explained why you cannot use stdin and atEnd() together. Task-number:251171 Rev-by: Andreas Aardal Hanssen
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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
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--- a/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qtextstream.cpp
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ static const int QTEXTSTREAM_BUFFERSIZE = 16384;
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/src_corelib_io_qtextstream.cpp 1
Note that you cannot use QTextStream::atEnd(), which returns true when you
- have reached the end of the data stream, with stdin.
-
+ have reached the end of the data stream, with stdin. The reason for this is
+ that as long as stdin doesn't give any input to the QTextStream, \c atEnd()
+ will return true even if the stdin is open and waiting for more characters.
+
Besides using QTextStream's constructors, you can also set the
device or string QTextStream operates on by calling setDevice() or
setString(). You can seek to a position by calling seek(), and