[aclug-L] Re: Weekly C quiz

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The easiest way is to look at the final character in your string.  If
it's a newline, you got the entire line and the next call will read in
the next line.  If not, then just loop until it is.

-- John

Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Here's the next installment of Larry's Weekly C Quiz. This week we're
> looking at buffer overruns. Here's some code:
> 
> #define MAX_BUF 201
> ...
> char buffer[MAX_BUF];
> FILE *file_in;
> ...
> while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), file_in) != NULL) {
> ....
> }
> 
> 
> If fgets returns a line from file_in's file bigger than MAX_BUF, buffer
> is full at the maximun size, the rest not going into buffer: good. But
> then the next fgets seems to fill buffer with the leftover from the
> input file's last line. How can I "flush" fgets so a longer line's
> leftover doesn't show up in the next fgets?
> 
> Larry
> 
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