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FPARSELN(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		   FPARSELN(3)

NAME
     fparseln — return the next logical line from a stream

LIBRARY
     System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <libutil.h>

     char *
     fparseln(FILE *stream, size_t *len, size_t *lineno, const char delim[3],
	 int flags);

DESCRIPTION
     The fparseln() function returns a pointer to the next logical line from
     the stream referenced by stream.  This string is NUL terminated and it is
     dynamically allocated on each invocation.	It is the responsibility of
     the caller to free the pointer.

     By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape
     character will be present in the returned string.	Various flags alter
     this behaviour.

     The meaning of the arguments is as follows:

     stream  The stream to read from.

     len     If not NULL, the length of the string is stored in the memory
	     location to which it points.

     lineno  If not NULL, the value of the memory location to which is pointed
	     to, is incremented by the number of lines actually read from the
	     file.

     delim   Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters.	 If a
	     character is NUL then processing for that character is disabled.
	     If NULL, all characters default to values specified below.	 The
	     contents of delim is as follows:

	     delim[0]  The escape character, which defaults to \, is used to
		       remove any special meaning from the next character.

	     delim[1]  The continuation character, which defaults to \, is
		       used to indicate that the next line should be concate‐
		       nated with the current one if this character is the
		       last character on the current line and is not escaped.

	     delim[2]  The comment character, which defaults to #, if not
		       escaped indicates the beginning of a comment that
		       extends until the end of the current line.

     flags   If non-zero, alter the operation of fparseln().  The various
	     flags, which may be or-ed together, are:

	     FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM	 Remove escape preceding an escaped comment.

	     FPARSELN_UNESCCONT	 Remove escape preceding an escaped continua‐
				 tion.

	     FPARSELN_UNESCESC	 Remove escape preceding an escaped escape.

	     FPARSELN_UNESCREST	 Remove escape preceding any other character.

	     FPARSELN_UNESCALL	 All of the above.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion a pointer to the parsed line is returned; oth‐
     erwise, NULL is returned.

     The fparseln() function uses internally fgetln(3), so all error condi‐
     tions that apply to fgetln(3), apply to fparseln().  In addition
     fparseln() may set errno to ENOMEM and return NULL if it runs out of mem‐
     ory.

SEE ALSO
     fgetln(3)

HISTORY
     The fparseln() function first appeared in NetBSD 1.4 and FreeBSD 4.0.

BSD			       December 1, 1997				   BSD
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