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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

end of file (EOF) character

A character written to a file by the operating system immediately after the last record to signal the end of that file to the controlling program. A programmer can use this to process a variable amount of data in a file, processing records until the end of file character is found.

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fileprogramerror trapprogram codeterminatoroperating system
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Programming › writing programs
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