1 /* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines
3 Copyright (C) 1986, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007 Free Software
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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 Consider lines to be terminated by DELIMITER.
39 Keep the delimiter; append DELIMITER if we reach EOF and it wasn't
40 the last character in the file. Do not NUL-terminate.
41 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return NULL. */
42 struct linebuffer *readlinebuffer_delim (struct linebuffer *linebuffer,
43 FILE *stream, char delimiter);
45 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
46 Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
47 that ends in a non-newline character. Do not NUL-terminate.
48 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return NULL. */
49 struct linebuffer *readlinebuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream);
51 /* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
52 void freebuffer (struct linebuffer *);
54 #endif /* LINEBUFFER_H */