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1 /* linebuffer.c -- read arbitrarily long lines
2 Copyright (C) 1986, 1991, 1998, 1999 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 /* Written by Richard Stallman. */
20 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 # include <config.h>
22 #endif
24 #include <stdio.h>
25 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #include "linebuffer.h"
28 char *xmalloc ();
29 char *xrealloc ();
30 void free ();
32 /* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
34 void
35 initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer)
37 linebuffer->length = 0;
38 linebuffer->size = 200;
39 linebuffer->buffer = (char *) xmalloc (linebuffer->size);
42 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
43 Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
44 that ends in a non-newline character. Do not null terminate.
45 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
47 struct linebuffer *
48 readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream)
50 int c;
51 char *buffer = linebuffer->buffer;
52 char *p = linebuffer->buffer;
53 char *end = buffer + linebuffer->size; /* Sentinel. */
55 if (feof (stream) || ferror (stream))
56 return 0;
60 c = getc (stream);
61 if (c == EOF)
63 if (p == buffer)
64 return 0;
65 if (p[-1] == '\n')
66 break;
67 c = '\n';
69 if (p == end)
71 linebuffer->size *= 2;
72 buffer = (char *) xrealloc (buffer, linebuffer->size);
73 p = p - linebuffer->buffer + buffer;
74 linebuffer->buffer = buffer;
75 end = buffer + linebuffer->size;
77 *p++ = c;
79 while (c != '\n');
81 linebuffer->length = p - buffer;
82 return linebuffer;
85 /* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
87 void
88 freebuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer)
90 free (linebuffer->buffer);
91 free (linebuffer);