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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:54:04 -0500
From:      Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getline function
Message-ID:  <43F75F3C.7080903@voidmain.net>
In-Reply-To: <43F75DF6.3050903@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Tom Grove wrote:
>   
>> Mike Jeays wrote:
>>     
> [ ... ]
>   
>> That works and I had looked into that earlier...it seems like it does a
>> lot more than just one function from the man page.  I guess I can use
>> that for now but I wonder why getline() is broken in gcc on FreeBSD?
>>     
>
> getline() is not part of the standard C library.
> What makes you think gcc is broken...?
>
>   
Yeah...I see that after some more research.  So, now I guess my question 
is being that it's not standard and gets() is not safe to use what 
should I use to grab lines?  My gut tells me to copy the getline() 
function from the K&R book but I'm not totally sure that's a great idea 
either.  Stupid strings always causing problems!

-Tom



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