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+/*   idealgetline.c -- my idea of an ideal getline function for stdio
+     Copyright (C) 1996  Joel N. Weber II <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
+     
+     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+     as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+     of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+     
+     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+     GNU General Public License for more details.
+     
+     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+     Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+ */
+
+/* I actually intend to use this in 32 bit programs, unlike the other stuff
+   in this lib.  IMHO GNU getline is broken.  It is too hard to use.
+
+   Just pass this function a FILE * and it will retrieve a line for you using
+   getc().  It will realloc() exactly the amount of memory needed, and will
+   generate error messages for non-ascii characters on stderr.
+
+   This may not be your ideal.  It probably generates far too many errors.
+   It doesn't work well for those who don't use English (but since
+   Linux-less-than-32 libc and kernels are each being produced by one
+   person in the US and one in the UK, this isn't a problem).  It probably
+   is not what you (or I) want for interactive input.
+
+   You're welcome to modify this routine to meet your needs.  However, if
+   you change the semantics significantly, please change the name.
+
+   (Maybe I should have put my own name on it so there will be no confusion
+   about who thought it was ideal). */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
+
+char *idealgetline(f)
+FILE *f;
+{
+  char c;
+  char *ret;
+  int size = 0, bufsize = 256;
+
+  ret = malloc(256);
+  c = getc(f);
+  while ((c != EOF) && (c != '\n')){
+    if ((c >= ' ') && (c <= 126)){
+      ret[size] = c;
+      size++;
+      if (size == bufsize){
+        bufsize += 256;
+        ret = realloc(ret, bufsize);
+      }
+    } else {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Unexpected character 0x%x encountered in input", c);
+      free(ret);
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+  ret[size] = '\0';
+  size++;
+  return realloc(ret, size);
+}