C++ attempting to read a char when EOF is reached

Question

ifstream inputFile("blah.txt");
char c;
inputFile.read((char *)(&c), 1);

Let's say at the read, the file has already reached the EOF.
What value ends up in c?

Possible duplicate of [Reading from text file until EOF repeats last line](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21647/reading-from-text-file-until-eof-repeats-last-line) — Tamás Szelei, Mar 07 '16 at 09:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '16 at 09:14

Characters are extracted and stored until any of the following conditions occurs: ... end of file condition occurs on the input sequence ...

So your char will contain the same value as before.

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