The current code assumes that if the next character in the stream is equal to the delimiter then we stopped because we saw that delimiter, and so discards it. But in the testcase for the PR we stop because we reached the maximum number of characters, and it's coincidence that the next character equals the delimiter. We should not discard the next character in that case. The fix is to check that we haven't discarded __n characters already, instead of checking whether the next character equals __delim. Because we've already checked for EOF, if we haven't discarded __n yet then we know we stopped because we saw the delimiter. On the other hand, if the next character is the delimiter we don't know if that's why we stopped. PR libstdc++/94749 * include/bits/istream.tcc (basic_istream::ignore(streamsize, CharT)): Only discard an extra character if we didn't already reach the maximum number. * src/c++98/istream.cc (istream::ignore(streamsiz, char)) (wistream::ignore(streamsize, wchar_t)): Likewise. * testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/94749.cc: New test. * testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/wchar_t/94749.cc: New test. Tested powerpc64le-linux, committed to master.