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1 /* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines
2 Copyright (C) 1986, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* A `struct linebuffer' holds a line of text. */
20 struct linebuffer
22 long size; /* Allocated. */
23 long length; /* Used. */
24 char *buffer;
27 #undef PARAMS
28 #if defined (__STDC__) && __STDC__
29 # define PARAMS(Args) Args
30 #else
31 # define PARAMS(Args) ()
32 #endif
34 /* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
35 void initbuffer PARAMS ((struct linebuffer *linebuffer));
37 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
38 Remove any newline. Does not null terminate.
39 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
40 struct linebuffer *readline PARAMS ((struct linebuffer *linebuffer,
41 FILE *stream));
43 /* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
44 void freebuffer PARAMS ((struct linebuffer *));