Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:48:05 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: olsenc@ichips.intel.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If not gets(), then what? Message-ID: <199510021848.MAA29706@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9510021814.AA35311@dtt034.intel.com> References: <9510021814.AA35311@dtt034.intel.com>
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> I have a program that uses gets(), and FreeBSD complains about it.
> I read the manpage on gets(), and it says it's dangerous, but yet
> it doesn't mention any alternatives!
Well, it's not conmpletely obvious, but the other routine mentioned in
the same man-page is the better solution.
Instead of:
{
char foo[255];
char *ptr;
#if defined(BAD_CODE)
gets(foo);
#else
fgets(foo, 255, stdin);
c = index(foo, '\n');
if ( c != NULL )
*c = '\0';
#endif
}
The use of the index call is necessary to strip off the trailing '\n'.
Nate
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