Read a line of unknown length in C

[SoFaraway]

Hi all,

In C, to read a line from a file, we need to allocate some fixed length of memory first. However, if the line is longer than the length of the allocated memory, it can't be read correctly.

Does anyone have codes that can read in a line of unknown length?

Thank you very much!

[Savage]

Hi all,

In C, to read a line from a file, we need to allocate some fixed length of memory first. However, if the line is longer than the length of the allocated memory, it can't be read correctly.

Does anyone have codes that can read in a line of unknown length?

Thank you very much!

All you need is pointer to a char:

char *ptr.

and then you can parse the file using scanf functions.

See this article and especialy the part which tells about Non-buffered functions.

Savage