Re: Does StreamTokenizer.pushBack correctly update TT_EOF ?

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:48:21 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-C4C012.11480621092008@news.motzarella.org>
In article
<d855d5e7-449a-4f35-b6b4-14384ddce84a@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
 enokacorea@gmail.com wrote:
[...]

My issue is that I thought my code should give the identical output
either if a) I insert a readToken() immediately followed by a
pushBack() or b) with neither of these statements (all else being the
same). I find that this is not the case.


I am unable to reproduce what you describe:

<code>
import java.io.*;
public class Tokenizer {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        StreamTokenizer tokens = new
            StreamTokenizer(new StringReader("Test 123"));
        int token;
        token = tokens.nextToken();
        print(tokens, token);

        token = tokens.nextToken();
        print(tokens, token);

        tokens.pushBack();
        tokens.pushBack();
        tokens.pushBack();
        token = tokens.nextToken();
        tokens.pushBack();
        token = tokens.nextToken();
        tokens.pushBack();
        token = tokens.nextToken();
        print(tokens, token);

        token = tokens.nextToken();
        print(tokens, token);
    }
    private static void print(StreamTokenizer tokens, int token) {
        System.out.println((token == StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF)
            + " " + tokens.sval + " " + tokens.nval);
    }
}
</code>
<console>
false Test 0.0
false null 123.0
false null 123.0
true null 123.0
</console>

After further debugging I removed

while (sis.ttype != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) and put in a

while (!EOF)

where EOF is set if (sis.ttype == StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) immediately
after the "chief" nextToken() - which is not subject to pushBack().

This solved the problem !!


Excellent! I would also develop tests to ensure that your code rejects
invalid input.

By the way, I visited your web site and was intrigued to find that you
are a doctor of medicine in addition to being a computer expert !


I'm no expert, but sometimes I apply software engineering principles to
medical informatics. I rarely appear on TV. :-)

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