[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58055] fgetl() reads in beyond newline according to following ftell()

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                 Summary: fgetl() reads in beyond newline according to
following ftell()
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: streumix
            Submitted on: Fri 27 Mar 2020 09:07:22 AM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 5.2.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Hi,

I have older code for text file import, which suddenly fails. It turned out
that fgetl() in current version of Octave reads beyond newline character (by a
few characters) according to ftell(), though the next call to fgetl() returns
the full line. There must be a ninternal buffer involved, which breaks
concurrent usage of ftell() / fseek(). 
Is this an intended change, and concurrent usage of ftell() / fseek() with
fgetl() is forbidden in general?

My code does a partial rewind, and that's exactly the reason why it's now
failing to work. It used to work in Octave 3 and probably in Octave 4, too.  

Is this a bug, or do I need to rework my code avoiding fgetl()?
(which file I/O functions to cooperate with ftell() and fseek()?)

Regards






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