JK> What is the prefered loop for reading to the end of a file?
JK> while (!filestream.eof())
JK> or
JK> while (!filestream.fail())
eof() tells you if the stream has reached its end. fail() tells you if
the  last  (reading)  operation  has  failed.  If  you  have access to
comp.lang.c++.moderated (or was  it  comp.std.c++?  I  don't  recall),
there  was a discussion ("the good(), the bad() and the fail()") about
these memember functions.
I personally would use the simplest possibility:
while (filestream >> myData)
    // work with myData
Thomas
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