Re: customer getline function

[Steve McDaniel <steven@synapsenetwork.org>]

LoL, I guess I should really read over things before sending out
emails...it is actually supposed to be custom.....and
the function declaration is supposed to be bufferGetLine

Steve McDaniel wrote:
> I wrote a getBufferLine function that will read a line at a time from a
> buffer. Just returns everything til it hits '\n', then will move to the
> next.It works on small buffers, but seems to segfault on anything large.
> Trying to figure out how pointers work in C, any pointers would help.
> 
> here is an example to use this function....
> while ((c = getBufferLine(&ptr,buf,BufLen)) != NULL)
> 	printf("%s", c);
> 
> unsigned char* buffer_line_get(unsigned char** lineptr, unsigned char*
> buffer, int size)
> {
>         static int index;
>         unsigned char* c;
> 
>         if((size - index) == 0)
>                 return NULL;
> 
>         if (lineptr == NULL)
>                 *lineptr = c = buffer;
>         else
>                 *lineptr = ((c = buffer) + index + 1);
> 
>         index = 0;
>         while ((lineptr[index++] != '\n') && (index < size));
> 
>         lineptr+=index;
>         *(buffer + index) = 0;
>         return c;
> }
> 
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