Problem with .next() method adding junk characters.

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Rainy" <ak at silmarill.org> wrote:

> I'm just curious as to what's happening. I understand that you're not
> supposed to call .next on a file open for writing. But I don't know why
> and how it does what happened here; besides, I've seen the same thing
> happen before when I was doing something else with file
> open/write/close, but I don't remember the specifics.

C's stdio library require you to call "flush" when switching between reading and
writing; if you don't, the result is undefined.

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