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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Need strnlen().
Message-ID: <451@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 21:58:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 21:58:26 1985
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> #define NUL	'\0'	/* Now, class, tell me why this is not NULL. */
> 
> 	char buffer[BUFLEN+1];
> 		...
> 	fread(buffer, 1, BUFLEN, infile);
> 	buffer[BUFLEN] = NUL;
> 	len = strlen(buffer);	/* if you must */

Uh...

	len = fread(buffer, BUFLEN, 1, infile);
	if(len==0)
		aha(endoffile);
	if(len<0)
		ohmygod(panic);
	else
		buffer[len] = NUL;

...would be much better code. Don't assume fread succeeds (it fails at least
once on almost any file :-)).
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