Re: need some help

Richard Heathfield wrote:

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2) the next stage is to write (or find) a function that can read
an entire line from standard input, reallocating storage as and
when necessary to ensure that there is sufficient room to store
the string. For a very simple way to do this that will suit you
very well, look for Chuck Falconer's ggets() function which,
last I heard, could be found at:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/ggets.zip>

3) simply call this function in a loop, assigning each pointer
thus obtained to new[i], where i is your loop counter, running
from 0 to n-1. What will you do if the function returns NULL, to
indicate insufficient storage, or perhaps an absence of input data?

int ggets(char**) returns 0 for success, EOF for eof, and positive
for lack of memory. So a suitable read'em'all loop is:

while (0 == ggets(&buffptr)) { ... }

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