Hello everyone,
Two questions,
1. Confused about what is the differences between bad and fail. This what Bjarne's comments in his book, but I do not quite understand and it is appreciated if you could share some best practices of the differences and when to use them.
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The difference between the states fail() and bad() is sutle. When the state is fail() but not also bad(), it is assumed that the stream is uncorrupted and that no characters have been lost. When the state is bad(), all bets are off.
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2. when do you prefer to use bad()/fail() and when do you prefer to use setting exceptions (std::ios::badbit or std::ios::failbit or both).
thanks in advance,
George
Two questions,
1. Confused about what is the differences between bad and fail. This what Bjarne's comments in his book, but I do not quite understand and it is appreciated if you could share some best practices of the differences and when to use them.
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The difference between the states fail() and bad() is sutle. When the state is fail() but not also bad(), it is assumed that the stream is uncorrupted and that no characters have been lost. When the state is bad(), all bets are off.
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2. when do you prefer to use bad()/fail() and when do you prefer to use setting exceptions (std::ios::badbit or std::ios::failbit or both).
thanks in advance,
George