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Subject: Re: Dos endline character
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:40:31 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > If .ini file is created in dos then it has extra end line character ^M.
  > If we parse this file then it gives error, with stat function, as the
  > home directory path is appended with ^M.
  > 
  > while grading, shall we assume that we will have all .ini created in Unix ?

Yes!

If you want your code to work with both types of file,
assuming that my_string is a *null-terminated ASCII string*
that represents a *line* of input, you can simply do:

    if (strlen(my_string) > 0 && my_str[strlen(my_string)-1] == '\r') {
        my_str[strlen(my_string)-1] == '\0');
    }
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>