• d-bugmail puremagic.com (35/35) May 20 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24557

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24557

          Issue ID: 24557
           Summary: File.readln does not properly handle case where last
                    character in terminator is repeated
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: zopsicle use.startmail.com

Consider the following program:

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import std.stdio : readln, writefln;

void main()
{
    char[] buf;
    readln(buf, "ABA");
    writefln!"%(%s%)"([buf]);
}
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Compiled and run as follows:

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$ dmd example.d
$ printf 'XABAY' | ./example
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Expected output: "XABA"
Actual output: "XABAY"

readln does not properly handle the case where the last character of the
terminator (in this case A) appears multiple times in the terminator (in this
case, A also appears at the front of the terminator).

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