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FGETLN(3)		    BSD Programmer's Manual		     FGETLN(3)

NAME
     fgetln - get a line from a stream

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdio.h>

     char *
     fgetln(FILE *stream, size_t *len);

DESCRIPTION
     The fgetln() function returns a pointer to the next line from the stream
     referenced by stream. This line is not a C string as it does not end with
     a terminating NUL character.  The length of the line, including the final
     newline, is stored in the memory location to which len points.  (Note,
     however, that if the line is the last in a file that does not end in a
     newline, the returned text will not contain a newline.)

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion a pointer is returned; this pointer becomes
     invalid after the next I/O operation on stream (whether successful or
     not) or as soon as the stream is closed.  Otherwise, NULL is returned.
     The fgetln() function does not distinguish between end-of-file and error;
     the routines feof(3) and ferror(3) must be used to determine which oc-
     curred.  If an error occurs, the global variable errno is set to indicate
     the error.	 The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal,
     and all subsequent attempts to read will return NULL until the condition
     is cleared with clearerr(3).

     The text to which the returned pointer points may be modified, provided
     that no changes are made beyond the returned size.	 There is one excep-
     tion: if the last line of the file does not end in a newline, fgetln()
     guarantees one byte past the returned size, for code that needs to nul-
     terminate the string.  Any changes are lost as soon as the pointer be-
     comes invalid.

ERRORS
     [EBADF]  The argument stream is not a stream open for reading.

     The fgetln() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors
     specified for the routines fflush(3),  malloc(3),	read(2),  stat(2),  or
     realloc(3).

SEE ALSO
     ferror(3),	 fgets(3),  fopen(3),  putc(3)

HISTORY
     The fgetln() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

BSDI BSD/OS			April 19, 1994				     1
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