1.\" $NetBSD: fparseln.3,v 1.1 2002/11/30 03:04:45 lukem Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Christos Zoulas. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 14.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 15.\" This product includes software developed by Christos Zoulas. 16.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 17.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 21.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 22.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 24.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 25.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 26.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 27.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 28.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd November 30, 2002 31.Dt FPARSELN 3 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm fparseln 35.Nd return the next logical line from a stream 36.Sh LIBRARY 37.Lb libc 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Fd #include \*[Lt]stdio.h\*[Gt] 40.Ft "char *" 41.Fo "fparseln" 42.Fa "FILE *stream" "size_t *len" "size_t *lineno" 43.Fa "const char delim[3]" "int flags" 44.Fc 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Fn fparseln 48function 49returns a pointer to the next logical line from the stream referenced by 50.Fa stream . 51This string is 52.Dv NUL 53terminated and it is dynamically allocated on each invocation. 54It is the responsibility of the caller to free the pointer. 55.Pp 56By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape 57character will be present in the returned string. 58Various 59.Fa flags 60alter this behaviour. 61.Pp 62The meaning of the arguments is as follows: 63.Bl -tag -width "lineno" 64.It Fa stream 65The stream to read from. 66.It Fa len 67If not 68.Dv NULL , 69the length of the string is stored in the memory location to which it 70points. 71.It Fa lineno 72If not 73.Dv NULL , 74the value of the memory location to which is pointed to, is incremented 75by the number of lines actually read from the file. 76.It Fa delim 77Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters. 78If a character is 79.Dv NUL 80then processing for that character is disabled. 81If 82.Dv NULL , 83all characters default to values specified below. 84The contents of 85.Fa delim 86is as follows: 87.Bl -tag -width "delim[0]" 88.It Fa delim[0] 89The escape character, which defaults to 90.Cm \e , 91is used to remove any special meaning from the next character. 92.It Fa delim[1] 93The continuation character, which defaults to 94.Cm \e , 95is used to indicate that the next line should be concatenated with the 96current one if this character is the last character on the current line 97and is not escaped. 98.It Fa delim[2] 99The comment character, which defaults to 100.Cm # , 101if not escaped indicates the beginning of a comment that extends until the 102end of the current line. 103.El 104.It Fa flags 105If non-zero, alter the operation of 106.Fn fparseln . 107The various flags, which may be 108.Em or Ns -ed 109together, are: 110.Bl -tag -width "FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM" 111.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM 112Remove escape preceding an escaped comment. 113.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCONT 114Remove escape preceding an escaped continuation. 115.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCESC 116Remove escape preceding an escaped escape. 117.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCREST 118Remove escape preceding any other character. 119.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCALL 120All of the above. 121.El 122.Pp 123.El 124.Sh RETURN VALUES 125Upon successful completion a pointer to the parsed line is returned; 126otherwise, 127.Dv NULL 128is returned. 129.Pp 130The 131.Fn fparseln 132function uses internally 133.Xr fgetln 3 , 134so all error conditions that apply to 135.Xr fgetln 3 , 136apply to 137.Fn fparseln . 138In addition 139.Fn fparseln 140may set 141.Va errno 142to 143.Bq Er ENOMEM 144and return 145.Dv NULL 146if it runs out of memory. 147.Sh SEE ALSO 148.Xr fgetln 3 149.Sh HISTORY 150The 151.Fn fparseln 152function first appeared in 153.Nx 1.4 . 154