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30 .Nd return the next logical line from a stream
37 .Fa "FILE *stream" "size_t *len" "size_t *lineno"
38 .Fa "const char delim[3]" "int flags"
44 returns a pointer to the next logical line from the stream referenced by
48 terminated and it is dynamically allocated on each invocation.
49 It is the responsibility of the caller to free the pointer.
51 By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape
52 character will be present in the returned string.
57 The meaning of the arguments is as follows:
58 .Bl -tag -width "lineno"
60 The stream to read from.
64 the length of the string is stored in the memory location to which it
69 the value of the memory location to which is pointed to, is incremented
70 by the number of lines actually read from the file.
72 Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters.
75 then processing for that character is disabled.
78 all characters default to values specified below.
82 .Bl -tag -width "delim[0]"
84 The escape character, which defaults to
86 is used to remove any special meaning from the next character.
88 The continuation character, which defaults to
90 is used to indicate that the next line should be concatenated with the
91 current one if this character is the last character on the current line
94 The comment character, which defaults to
96 if not escaped indicates the beginning of a comment that extends until the
97 end of the current line.
100 If non-zero, alter the operation of
102 The various flags, which may be
105 .Bl -tag -width "FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM"
106 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM
107 Remove escape preceding an escaped comment.
108 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCONT
109 Remove escape preceding an escaped continuation.
110 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCESC
111 Remove escape preceding an escaped escape.
112 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCREST
113 Remove escape preceding any other character.
114 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCALL
120 Upon successful completion a pointer to the parsed line is returned;
127 function uses internally
129 so all error conditions that apply to
141 if it runs out of memory.
147 function first appeared in