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- /* Correctly reads an arbitrarily size string.
-
- Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- written by Douglas C. Schmidt (schmidt@ics.uci.edu)
-
- This file is part of GNU GPERF.
-
- GNU GPERF is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GNU GPERF is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GNU GPERF; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include "readline.h"
-
- /* Size of each chunk. */
- #define CHUNK_SIZE BUFSIZ
-
- /* Recursively fills up the buffer. */
-
- static char *
- readln_aux (chunks)
- int chunks;
- {
- char *buffered_malloc ();
- char buf[CHUNK_SIZE];
- register char *bufptr = buf;
- register char *ptr;
- int c;
-
- while ((c = getchar ()) != EOF && c != '\n') /* fill the current buffer */
- {
- *bufptr++ = c;
- if (bufptr - buf >= CHUNK_SIZE) /* prepend remainder to ptr buffer */
- {
- if (ptr = readln_aux (chunks + 1))
-
- for (; bufptr != buf; *--ptr = *--bufptr);
-
- return ptr;
- }
- }
-
- if (c == EOF && bufptr == buf)
- return NULL;
-
- c = (chunks * CHUNK_SIZE + bufptr - buf) + 1;
-
- if (ptr = buffered_malloc (c))
- {
-
- for (*(ptr += (c - 1)) = '\0'; bufptr != buf; *--ptr = *--bufptr)
- ;
-
- return ptr;
- }
- else
- return NULL;
- }
-
- /* Returns the ``next'' line, ignoring comments beginning with '#'. */
-
- char *read_line ()
- {
- int c;
- if ((c = getchar ()) == '#')
- {
- while ((c = getchar ()) != '\n' && c != EOF)
- ;
-
- return c != EOF ? read_line () : NULL;
- }
- else
- {
- ungetc (c, stdin);
- return readln_aux (0);
- }
- }
-