specifies whether the Wolfram System should terminate when it receives an end‐of‐file character as input.


$IgnoreEOF
specifies whether the Wolfram System should terminate when it receives an end‐of‐file character as input.
Details

- $IgnoreEOF defaults to False.
- $IgnoreEOF is assumed to be False if the input to the Wolfram System comes from a file, rather than an interactive device.
See Also
Tech Notes
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History
Introduced in 1988 (1.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), $IgnoreEOF, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$IgnoreEOF.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "$IgnoreEOF." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$IgnoreEOF.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). $IgnoreEOF. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$IgnoreEOF.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_$ignoreeof, author="Wolfram Research", title="{$IgnoreEOF}", year="1988", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$IgnoreEOF.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_$ignoreeof, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={$IgnoreEOF}, year={1988}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$IgnoreEOF.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}