FPARSELN(3) BSD Programmer's Manual FPARSELN(3)
fparseln - return the next logical line from a stream
#include <stdio.h>
#include <util.h>
char *
fparseln(FILE *stream, size_t *len, size_t *lineno, const char delim[3],
int flags);
The fparseln() function returns a pointer to the next logical line from
the stream referenced by stream. This string is null terminated and
dynamically allocated on each invocation. It is the responsibility of the
caller to free the pointer.
By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape
character will be present in the returned string. Various flags alter
this behaviour.
The meaning of the arguments is as follows:
stream The stream to read from.
len If not NULL, the length of the string is stored in the memory lo-
cation referenced by len.
lineno If not NULL, the value of the memory location to which lineno
references is incremented by the number of lines actually read
from the file.
delim Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters. If a
character is NUL then processing for that character is disabled.
If NULL, all characters default to values specified below. The
contents of delim is as follows:
delim[0] The escape character, which defaults to '\', is used to
remove any special meaning from the next character.
delim[1] The continuation character, which defaults to '\', is
used to indicate that the next line should be con-
catenated with the current one if this character is the
last character on the current line and is not escaped.
delim[2] The comment character, which defaults to '#', if not
escaped indicates the beginning of a comment that ex-
tends until the end of the current line.
flags If non-zero, alter the operation of fparseln(). The various
flags, which may be OR'ed together, are:
FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM Remove escape preceding an escaped comment.
FPARSELN_UNESCCONT Remove escape preceding an escaped continua-
tion.
FPARSELN_UNESCESC Remove escape preceding an escaped escape.
FPARSELN_UNESCREST Remove escape preceding any other character.
FPARSELN_UNESCALL All of the above.
Upon successful completion a pointer to the parsed line is returned; oth-
erwise, NULL is returned.
Internally, the fparseln() function uses fgetln(3), so all error condi-
tions that apply to fgetln(3) apply to fparseln() as well. In addition
fparseln() may set errno to ENOMEM and return NULL if it runs out of
memory.
fgetln(3)
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