On 4 Jun 1999 03:19:12 -0500, Nieminen Mika wrote:
>Ralf Muschall <rmu### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
>: Probably because nobody wanted to write such a function,
>: ANSI libc.a does not contain one, and POV was written in a
>: time before GNU hackers told that all limits are evil.
>: AFAIK glibc has an extension (getline) which does the job.
>
>  filepos=ftell(InFile);
>  for(i=StartingQuoteIndex+1; getc(InFile)!='"'; i++);
>  fseek(filepos);
>  char* String=malloc(i-StartingQuoteIndex-1);
>  fgets(String, i-StartingQuoteIndex-1, InFile);
>
>  What's so difficult here?

This, from the docs:

 Note if you need to specify a quote mark in a string literal you must precede 
 it with a  backslash. For example
    "Joe said \"Hello\" as he walked in."
   is converted to
   Joe said "Hello" as he walked in.
 If you need to specify a backslash, most of the time you need do nothing 
 special. However  if the string ends in a backslash, you will have to specify 
 two. For example:
   "This is a backslash \ and so is this\\"
   Is converted to:
   This is a backslash \ and so is this\

Not that it's insurmountable or anything, but it does make the job a little 
more interesting than what you have there.

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