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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Buffer contents well-defined after fgets() reaches EOF ?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:03:20 -0800
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
[...]
> It would be good if fgets nuked the terminating newline.
>
> Many uses of fgets, after every operation, look for the newline
> and nuke it, before doing anything else.
>
> There is a nice idiom for that, by the way, which avoids an
> temporary variable and if test:
>
>    line[strcspn(line, "\n")] = 0;
[...]

Then how do you detect a partial line?  That can occur either if
the last line doesn't have a terminating newline (on systems that
permit it) or a line that's too long to fit in the array.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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