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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some ideas about c?
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> The program solves the original assignment:
>
>     Write a program, that reads in a line from the console and then
>     echoes the same line to the console again.
>
> There is nothing there about 'infinite line length' explictly, and
> even the C++ version using getline() can't handle every possible input,
> eventually the std::string will hit a memory limitation.

Weak