checking for eof in string::getline

Solution 1:

The canonical reading loop in C++ is:

while (getline(cin, str)) {

}

if (cin.bad()) {
    // IO error
} else if (!cin.eof()) {
    // format error (not possible with getline but possible with operator>>)
} else {
    // format error (not possible with getline but possible with operator>>)
    // or end of file (can't make the difference)
}

Solution 2:

Just read and then check that the read operation succeeded:

 std::getline(std::cin, str);
 if(!std::cin)
 {
     std::cout << "failure\n";
 }

Since the failure may be due to a number of causes, you can use the eof member function to see it what happened was actually EOF:

 std::getline(std::cin, str);
 if(!std::cin)
 {
     if(std::cin.eof())
         std::cout << "EOF\n";
     else
         std::cout << "other failure\n";
 }

getline returns the stream so you can write more compactly:

 if(!std::getline(std::cin, str))

Solution 3:

ifstream has peek() function, which reads the next character from the input stream without extracting it, simply returns the next character in the input string. Thus, when the pointer is at the last character, it will return EOF.

string str;
fstream file;

file.open("Input.txt", ios::in);

while (file.peek() != EOF) {
    getline(file, str);
    // code here
}

file.close();