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Bug #400

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Possible bug in IO#ungetc

Added by Anonymous over 15 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
[ruby-core:18092]

Description

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According to the documentation for IO#ungetc:

bq.
"Only one character may be pushed back before a subsequent
read operation (that is, you will be able to read only the
last of several characters that have been pushed back)."

But that doesn't seem to be the case:

file.txt
Voici la ligne une.
Qui è la linea due.
Aquí está la línea tres.
Ist hier Linie vier.
Está aqui a linha cinco.
Here is line six.

Rubyspec:

 @file = File.open("file.txt", "r")
 @file.getc
 10.times { @file.ungetc(90) }
 @file.ungetc(80)
 @file.read(1).should == "P"
 @file.readline.should == "oici la ligne une.\n"

 #=> IO#ungetc pushing back only one character FAILED
     Expected "ZZZZZZZZZZoici la ligne une.\n"
     to equal "oici la ligne une.\n"

Are we misunderstanding the documentation and this works as expected or is it a bug indeed?
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Actions #1

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 15 years ago

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That depends. As C standard only guarantees one ungetc at a time, multiple ungetc may or may not be doable, depending on your (underlying) libc's stdio implementation. It is nicer for programmers not to do multiple ungetc to earn maximum portability, so saying no in documents is basically a good thing I think.
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Actions #2

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago

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Hi,

At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:13:57 +0900,
Anonymous wrote in [ruby-core:18092]:

According to the documentation for IO#ungetc:

bq.
"Only one character may be pushed back before a subsequent
read operation (that is, you will be able to read only the
last of several characters that have been pushed back)."

But that doesn't seem to be the case:

It depends on the behavior of underlying stdio. The doc should
be:

"Only one character is guaranteed ...

--
Nobu Nakada

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Actions #3

Updated by febuiles (Federico Builes) over 15 years ago

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Thanks for your input, I'll modify the specs to reflect this behavior then.
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Actions #4

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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