>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andre> The problem is, not to many people here have a Windows Andre> development system to check. The ifstream in question is not Andre> opened in binary mode as far as I can tell, so optically it Andre> should work. Nevertheless, the '\r' show up for the Windows Andre> people... How do we open in text/binary mode? Andre> rtrim('\n') eats a few cycles but does no other harm on *nix. Andre> At least as workaround it should be ok. I guess you mean rtrim('\r'). Note that we may have a problem with mac-style files (with a single \r for line end), so the best would be to have a stream that just does the right thing. I can't believe that C++ standards builders did not cater for this need. Or maybe they thought it was too vulgar for them. JMarc