1 /* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines
3 Copyright (C) 1986, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 Free Software
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
20 #if !defined LINEBUFFER_H
25 /* A `struct linebuffer' holds a line of text. */
29 size_t size; /* Allocated. */
30 size_t length; /* Used. */
34 /* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
35 void initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer);
37 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
38 Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
39 that ends in a non-newline character. Do not null terminate.
40 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
41 struct linebuffer *readlinebuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream);
43 /* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
44 void freebuffer (struct linebuffer *);
46 #endif /* LINEBUFFER_H */