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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <32197@bbn.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 88 18:47:44 GMT
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From article <9054@ihlpb.ATT.COM>, by gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly):
> The biggest
> concern that most people have about moving from gets to fgets is the
> added hassle of doing a 
> 
> 	if ((t = strchr (buf, '\n')) != NULL)
> 		*t = 0;
> 
> This seems to be a lot of work when you may be processing thousands of
> lines of code.

Or have this new function return a pointer to the _last_ char read,
instead of redundantly returning its first param.  This would require
exactly no extra work on the part of the library routine or the client
program.

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