1 /* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines
2 Copyright (C) 1986, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
18 /* A `struct linebuffer' holds a line of text. */
22 long size; /* Allocated. */
23 long length; /* Used. */
27 #if defined (__STDC__) && __STDC__
33 /* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
34 void initbuffer __P ((struct linebuffer *linebuffer));
36 /* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
37 Remove any newline. Does not null terminate.
38 Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
39 struct linebuffer *readline __P ((struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream));
41 /* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
42 void freebuffer __P ((struct linebuffer *));