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36 .Nd return the next logical line from a stream
45 .Fa "FILE *stream" "size_t *len" "size_t *lineno"
46 .Fa "const char delim[3]" "int flags"
52 returns a pointer to the next logical line from the stream referenced by
56 terminated and it is dynamically allocated on each invocation.
58 responsibility of the caller to free the pointer.
60 By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape
61 character will be present in the returned string.
66 The meaning of the arguments is as follows:
67 .Bl -tag -width "lineno"
69 The stream to read from.
73 the length of the string is stored in the memory location to which it
78 the value of the memory location to which is pointed to, is incremented
79 by the number of lines actually read from the file.
81 Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters.
84 then processing for that character is disabled.
87 all characters default to values specified below.
91 .Bl -tag -width "delim[0]"
93 The escape character, which defaults to
95 is used to remove any special meaning from the next character.
97 The continuation character, which defaults to
99 is used to indicate that the next line should be concatenated with the
100 current one if this character is the last character on the current line
103 The comment character, which defaults to
105 if not escaped indicates the beginning of a comment that extends until the
106 end of the current line.
109 If non-zero, alter the operation of
111 The various flags, which may be
114 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM"
115 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM
116 Remove escape preceding an escaped comment.
117 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCONT
118 Remove escape preceding an escaped continuation.
119 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCESC
120 Remove escape preceding an escaped escape.
121 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCREST
122 Remove escape preceding any other character.
123 .It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCALL
128 Upon successful completion a pointer to the parsed line is returned;
135 function uses internally
137 so all error conditions that apply to
149 if it runs out of memory.
155 function first appeared in