Re: Command Line Interface (CLI): your recommendations

Hello, Barry!
You wrote on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:08:48 -0800:

Thank you very much for useful tips.

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BS> But you are inconsistent. You actually copy the command but only
BS> store the argument addresses. What about the command is so special
BS> that you need to store the actual characters in cli->command rather
BS> than simply the address of the command in buf?


??>> while (1) {
??>> printf("%s", PROMPT);

BS> Use fflush here to force the output to your screen.

??>> if ( fgets(buf, BUFSIZ, stdin) ) {
??>> /* skip LF/CR/TAB/SP */
??>> if (buf[0] == '\n' || buf[0] == ' ' || buf[0] == '\r' ||
??>> buf[0] == '\t')

BS> Look up the isspace() function if you really want to do this. Are you
BS> sure you want to do this since the strtoken call in
BS> cliParseCommandLine() will very happily skip over leading white space
BS> for you?
Actually true, but my intention was to skip input consisting only of '\t',
'\n', ' ' and '\r'. That's isspace() is much better here.

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: mrv@xxxxxxxx


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