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Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C

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"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> "Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message
> news:lnfwinnvgb.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
>> "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>>> If a limit of a few thousand characters is not enough, then a different
>>> approach is needed; something in between ReadLine and ReadFile; ReadBlock
>>> perhaps, as the file cannot be considered line-oriented, not in the
>>> conventional, human-readable sense.
>>
>> Text isn't necessarily meant to be human-readable.
>
> In that case there should be no pretence that a ReadLine function
> actually reads a 'line' at all, but any sequence of characters of any
> length.
>
> That's why I suggested such a function should be called Readblock,
> with all the problems that that would introduce (such as possibly
> bringing down the system in the case of a rogue file with 'lines' too
> long to fit into either physical or virtual memory).
>
> 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".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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          Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-20 14:31 +0100
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              Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-20 23:23 +0100
                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-20 15:34 -0700
                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-21 14:10 +1300
                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-10-21 10:30 +0100
                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-10-21 05:59 -0700
                Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-21 10:58 -0700
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  Re: Analogue of ReadLine() in C Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-10-20 18:40 +0200
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