Adt lab/notes on how to read input

This is part of adt lab.

In many ICPC tasks, the input may not specify the number of test cases. In that case, you need to check for the end-of-file (EOF) mark youself.

In C++, you can use cin.eof to check that. However, it only works when you reach the end-of-file. Sometimes, you read everything, but you are not at the end of file, so you have to also check again after you attempt to read pass the EOF.

You can see the code below which is for the task 3n+1.

main()
{
  while(!cin.eof()) {
    int i,j;

    cin >> i;
    if(cin.eof()) {
      break;
    }
    cin >> j;
    work(i,j);
  }
}