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30 .\" @(#)fgetln.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
37 .Nd get a line from a stream
43 .Fn fgetln "FILE * restrict stream" "size_t * restrict len"
48 returns a pointer to the next line from the stream referenced by
52 a C string as it does not end with a terminating
55 The length of the line, including the final newline,
56 is stored in the memory location to which
59 (Note, however, that if the line is the last
60 in a file that does not end in a newline,
61 the returned text will not contain a newline.)
63 Upon successful completion a pointer is returned;
64 this pointer becomes invalid after the next
68 (whether successful or not)
69 or as soon as the stream is closed.
76 does not distinguish between end-of-file and error; the routines
81 to determine which occurred.
82 If an error occurs, the global variable
84 is set to indicate the error.
85 The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal, and all
86 subsequent attempts to read will return
88 until the condition is
92 The text to which the returned pointer points may be modified,
93 provided that no changes are made beyond the returned size.
94 These changes are lost as soon as the pointer becomes invalid.
96 .Bl -tag -width [EBADF]
100 is not a stream open for reading.
106 may also fail and set
108 for any of the errors specified for the routines
123 function first appeared in
126 Since the returned buffer is not a C string (it is not null terminated), a
127 common practice is to replace the newline character with
129 However, if the last line in a file does not contain a newline,
130 the returned text won't contain a newline either.
131 The following code demonstrates how to deal with this problem by allocating a
137 while ((lbuf = buf = fgetln(fp, &len)) != NULL) {
138 if (len > 0 && buf[len - 1] == '\en')
139 buf[len - 1] = '\e0';
140 else if ((lbuf = strndup(buf, len + 1)) == NULL)
142 printf("%s\en", lbuf);