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If not, see * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. * ************************************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03020301xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Eof Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020301.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:24:39">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="eof"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154598"><bookmark_value>Eof function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154598" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020301.xhp" name="Eof Function [Runtime]">Eof Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147182" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Determines if the file pointer has reached the end of a file.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147399" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Eof (intexpression As Integer)</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153539" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156027" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Bool</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> <emph>Intexpression:</emph> Any integer expression that evaluates to the number of an open file.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153527" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Use EOF to avoid errors when you attempt to get input past the end of a file. When you use the Input or Get statement to read from a file, the file pointer is advanced by the number of bytes read. When the end of a file is reached, EOF returns the value "True" (-1).</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err52"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154046" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleWorkWithAFile</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim iNumber As Integer</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sLine As String</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim aFile As String</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Dim sMsg as String</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">aFile = "c:\data.txt"</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148663" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153379" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Open aFile For Output As #iNumber</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153360" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Print #iNumber, "First line of text"</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148797" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Print #iNumber, "Another line of text"</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154684" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Close #iNumber</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153104" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">iNumber = Freefile</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3144761" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Open aFile For Input As iNumber</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">While not eof(iNumber)</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3158408" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">Line Input #iNumber, sLine</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">If sLine <>"" then</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">sMsg = sMsg & sLine & chr(13)</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">end if</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="33">wend</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3152939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">Close #iNumber</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">Msgbox sMsg</paragraph> <paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">End Sub</paragraph> </body> </helpdocument>