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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Some ideas about c? |
| Date | 2017-05-19 21:05 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87bmqoipe0.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
>>> supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
>>>> On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7:38:13 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>> Gareth Owen writes:
>>>>> >scott writes:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> int main() { char buffer[512]; fputs(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer),
>>>>> >> stdin), stdout); }
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Great. Except it doesn't work if the input line is too big.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure it does. It just truncates it. And the programmer is, of
>>>>> course, aware of that.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't truncate lines; it wraps them. Sometimes that's desirable, and
>>>> sometimes not. A function which behaved like fgets() but provided a choice
>>>> of behaviors (truncate, wrap, or trap/signal) would have been helpful, but
>>>> fgets is what it is.
>>>
>>> No, it doesn't wrap.
>>>
>>> The program reads and prints a single line, discarding any remaining
>>> input. If the line is longer than 512 characters, including the
>>> trailing newline, it prints only the first 512 characters and discards
>>> the rest. (Which means that the output might not contain a terminating
>>> newline even if the input does.)
>>
>> I found this description a bit confusing so I'll offer a clarification.
>> Instead of "and discards the rest" I'd say "and leaves the rest to be
>> read by later input calls".
>>
>> Discarded input sounds to me like input lost forever.
>
> Yes, the input is lost forever when the program (shown above in its
> entirety but missing `#include <stdio.h>` terminates.
OK. But it still sounds too active for me. Something other than the
program probably discards the input. I prefer to think of it as ignored
by the program.
<snip>
--
Ben.
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