Common: Readline: Ignore newline on '\' escaped line ends.

Escape line return when reading from a file with the '\' character.
Similar to shell scripts.

Signed-off-by: Roosembert Palacios <roosembert.palacios@epfl.ch>
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Roosembert Palacios 2016-06-06 00:17:27 +02:00
parent e8c0ef98b1
commit 230591fa4e
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2 changed files with 8 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -5,17 +5,24 @@
char *read_line(FILE *file) {
size_t length = 0, size = 128;
char *string = malloc(size);
char lastChar = '\0';
if (!string) {
return NULL;
}
while (1) {
int c = getc(file);
if (c == '\n' && lastChar == '\\'){
--length; // Ignore last character.
lastChar = '\0';
continue;
}
if (c == EOF || c == '\n' || c == '\0') {
break;
}
if (c == '\r') {
continue;
}
lastChar = c;
if (length == size) {
char *new_string = realloc(string, size *= 2);
if (!new_string) {