On 3/30/13, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> - What guarantee do you have that the input file won't contain any lines >> with length > LINE_MAX? As far as I know, that's an arbitrary number, >> and >> there is no intrinsic limit on the length of the lines in a Unix text >> file. > > I didn't feel very good about this either. > > Is there a better way to read a whole line? fgets requires a length > argument, so I suppose it's not a very good solution
getline or getdelim if you have a reasonably modern system. (Yes, GNU introduced it, but it's useful.) Robert Ransom
