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Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C

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On 10/23/11 08:00 AM, BartC wrote:
> "Keith Thompson"<kst-u@mib.org>  wrote in message
> news:ln7h3yns5q.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
>> "BartC"<bc@freeuk.com>  writes:
>
>>> Then 'ReadLine' can be used for the straightforward cases such as
>>> reading configuration files or command lines. Lines which are too long
>>> are reported as errors (which in all probability they are).
>>
>> A block of characters terminated by a newline character is what we call
>> a "line".
>
> Yes, but is a line a few hundred characters long, as it might have been once
> (eg. 132), or could it conceivably be terrabytes long? I think that in most
> cases where you want to read a line, assuming that the line can be,
> effectively, of infinite length, adds unnecessary complications.

"where you want to read a line" is the key there, data can be stored in 
an infinitely long "line", but if that data isn't intended to be read as 
one line (my 1.3GB JSON line for example) the argument is moot.

-- 
Ian Collins

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              Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-20 23:23 +0100
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                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-21 10:30 +0100
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