>There is no such thing as a EOF character real...

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[evkaky]

There is no such thing as a EOF character

really sadly

[voddan]

This one of those "by definition" things

[evkaky]

ok, may you advice me, what should I use instead of unexisting ‘eof’ char?
I have such code in Python:

def advance(self):
        self.pos += 1
        if self.pos > len(self.text) - 1:
            self.current_char = None  # Indicates end of input
        else:
            self.current_char = self.text[self.pos]

if self.current_char is not None ...
and I’m trying to code something like that but in kotlin. I need some special char value (python programmers have None for that case).
May be nullable Char?

[voddan]

A similar API exists in Java. For example Reader.read() returns -1 when the end of file is reached. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/811851/how-do-i-read-input-character-by-character-in-java

[voddan]

You may be able to find better solutions, like reading a file into a stream of characters