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- .so man.macros
- .HS gets tcl
- .BS
- '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
- .SH NAME
- gets \- Read a line from a file
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBgets \fIfileId\fR ?\fIvarName\fR?
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- This command reads the next line from the file given by \fIfileId\fR
- and discards the terminating newline character.
- If \fIvarName\fR is specified then the line is placed in the variable
- by that name and the return value is a count of the number of characters
- read (not including the newline).
- If the end of the file is reached before reading
- any characters then \-1 is returned and \fIvarName\fR is set to an
- empty string.
- If \fIvarName\fR is not specified then the return value will be
- the line (minus the newline character) or an empty string if
- the end of the file is reached before reading any characters.
- An empty string will also be returned if a line contains no characters
- except the newline, so \fBeof\fR may have to be used to determine
- what really happened.
- If the last character in the file is not a newline character then
- \fBgets\fR behaves as if there were an additional newline character
- at the end of the file.
- \fIFileId\fR must be \fBstdin\fR or the return value from a previous
- call to \fBopen\fR; it must refer to a file that was opened
- for reading.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- file, line, read
-