Re: equivalent of chomp in perl

2006-11-03 <454B886C.E59D48F1@xxxxxxxxx>,
CBFalconer wrote:
Keith Thompson wrote:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
lnatz wrote:

Is there an equivalent to the perl command chomp in C? And if
there is no exact equivalent command, how would I go about
removing the "\n" at the end of a stdin?

int flushln(FILE *f) {
int ch;

while (('\n' != (ch = getc(f))) && (EOF != ch)) continue;
return ch;
}

That's a useful function, but it's doesn't bear any particular
resemblance to Perl's chomp function.

Probably so, but I suspect it is the answer to the OPs real
question, which was not well defined.

Are you sure? chomp is used for a specific purpose, which is removing
the newline from a whole line read from input. fgets() also leaves the
newline on the input line. The function above is more useful for people
who think they want to fflush(stdin) [after, say, a scanf] - but the OP
didn't say anything like that.
.

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