Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: gets(3) nonsense
Message-ID: <1988Nov19.213912.27350@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <434@auspex.UUCP> <4700029@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 88 21:39:12 GMT

In article <4700029@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>... It would be trivial to write a function to do
>>this, and you only have to do it once...
>
>How convenient that the deigners of the stardard C library have done
>this for us already.  It's called fgets().

Note also that a good implementation of fgets (the ones in many old C
libraries are not terribly good) will almost certainly be much faster
than the quick ten-minute hack that you might throw together.  Never
re-invent the wheel unnecessarily; yours may have corners.
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