From efa37bd4c438601836ef2e726edce02ed34f7cf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Osfield <robert@openscenegraph.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:36:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] From Jean-Sebestien Guay, merged from svn/trunk changeset
 12669/12670 - fix for windows bug when reading ascii files with unix file
 endings.

---
 src/osgPlugins/osg/AsciiStreamOperator.h | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/osgPlugins/osg/AsciiStreamOperator.h b/src/osgPlugins/osg/AsciiStreamOperator.h
index 98113d22d..9b21b19b6 100644
--- a/src/osgPlugins/osg/AsciiStreamOperator.h
+++ b/src/osgPlugins/osg/AsciiStreamOperator.h
@@ -278,7 +278,15 @@ public:
     {
         std::string s; readString(s);
         if ( s==str ) return true;
-        else _in->seekg( -(int)(s.length()), std::ios::cur );
+        else 
+        {
+            // originally "_in->seekg( -(int)(s.length()), std::ios::cur );" was used below but
+            // problems under windows occurred when reading ascii files with unix line endings.
+            // The workaround for this problem was to unget each of the characters in term,
+            // hacky yes, but at least it works!
+            for (unsigned int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i)
+                _in->unget();
+        }
         return false;
     }