getline.h   [plain text]


/*  Copyright (C) 1995, 2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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#ifndef GETLINE_H_
# define GETLINE_H_ 1

# include <stddef.h>
# include <stdio.h>

/* Like the glibc functions get_line and get_delim, except that the result
   must be freed using delete[], not free().  */

/* Reads up to (and including) a newline from STREAM into *LINEPTR
   (and null-terminate it). *LINEPTR is a pointer returned from new [] (or
   NULL), pointing to *N characters of space.  It is realloc'd as
   necessary.  Returns the number of characters read (not including the
   null terminator), or -1 on error or immediate EOF.  */
extern ssize_t get_line (char **lineptr, size_t *n, FILE *stream);

/* Reads up to (and including) a DELIMITER from STREAM into *LINEPTR
   (and null-terminate it). *LINEPTR is a pointer returned from new [] (or
   NULL), pointing to *N characters of space.  It is realloc'd as
   necessary.  Returns the number of characters read (not including the
   null terminator), or -1 on error or immediate EOF.  */
extern ssize_t get_delim (char **lineptr, size_t *n, int delimiter, FILE *stream);

#endif /* not GETLINE_H_ */