Re: Buffer contents well-defined after fgets() reaches EOF ?

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
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It would be good if fgets nuked the terminating newline.
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Many uses of fgets, after every operation, look for the newline
and nuke it, before doing anything else.
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There is a nice idiom for that, by the way, which avoids an
temporary variable and if test:
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   line[strcspn(line, "\n")] = 0;

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Then how do you detect a partial line?  That can occur either if
the last line doesn't have a terminating newline (on systems that
permit it) or a line that's too long to fit in the array.

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