FEOF End Of File Function
Section: Input/Ouput Functions
Usage
Check to see if we are at the end of the file. The usage isb = feof(handle)
The handle
argument must be a valid and active file handle. The
return is true (logical 1) if the current position is at the end of
the file, and false (logical 0) otherwise. Note that simply reading
to the end of a file will not cause feof
to return true
.
You must read past the end of the file (which will cause an error
anyway). See the example for more details.
Example
Here, we read to the end of the file to demonstrate howfeof
works.
At first pass, we force a read of the contents of the file by specifying
inf
for the dimension of the array to read. We then test the
end of file, and somewhat counter-intuitively, the answer is false
.
We then attempt to read past the end of the file, which causes an
error. An feof
test now returns the expected value of true
.
--> fp = fopen('test.dat','rb'); --> x = fread(fp,[512,inf],'float'); --> feof(fp) ans = 1 --> x = fread(fp,[1,1],'float'); --> feof(fp) ans = 1