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authorIgor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>2012-09-09 02:33:07 +0000
committerIgor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>2012-09-09 02:33:07 +0000
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+/* getndelim2 - Read a line from a stream, stopping at one of 2 delimiters,
+ with bounded memory allocation.
+
+ Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2006, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef GETNDELIM2_H
+#define GETNDELIM2_H 1
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#define GETNLINE_NO_LIMIT ((size_t) -1)
+
+/* Read into a buffer *LINEPTR returned from malloc (or NULL),
+ pointing to *LINESIZE bytes of space. Store the input bytes
+ starting at *LINEPTR + OFFSET, and null-terminate them. Reallocate
+ the buffer as necessary, but if NMAX is not GETNLINE_NO_LIMIT
+ then do not allocate more than NMAX bytes; if the line is longer
+ than that, read and discard the extra bytes. Stop reading after
+ the first occurrence of DELIM1 or DELIM2, whichever comes first;
+ a delimiter equal to EOF stands for no delimiter. Read the
+ input bytes from STREAM.
+ Return the number of bytes read and stored at *LINEPTR + OFFSET (not
+ including the NUL terminator), or -1 on error or EOF. */
+extern ssize_t getndelim2 (char **lineptr, size_t *linesize, size_t offset,
+ size_t nmax, int delim1, int delim2,
+ FILE *stream);
+
+#endif /* GETNDELIM2_H */