NAME

fgetline() - gets a line from a file

SYNOPSIS

int fgetline(f,buf,length)
FILE *f;
char *buf;
int length;

DESCRIPTION

fgetline() reads up to length characters from the input file using getc() (q.v.). The transfer is also terminated by a newline, end of file, or read error. The newline character is stripped and the string is NULL ('\0') terminated.

RETURNS

>=0: the number of bytes read.
< 0: if an error occurred.

NOTES

none

15. Juli 1988

Joerg Schilling

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