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From: j0p7771@tam2000.tamu.edu (Jason Perez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject: reading from stdin
Date: 7 Jun 1994 08:57:59 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx
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   the C code below is what i'm using to read data from stdin
and place it into a single character array.  the code works,
but is there a better way to place stdin in a single array?

        char buffer[256],*teText,*tempbuf;
 
        teText = (char *) malloc(1); /* initial malloc for initial free */
        teText[0] = (char) 0;
        while (fgets(buffer,255,fin) != NULL) {  /* fin == stdin */
                tempbuf = (char *) malloc(strlen(teText) + 1);
                strcpy(tempbuf,teText); /* save what has been read in */
                free(teText);
                teText = (char *) malloc(strlen(tempbuf) + 256);
                strcpy(teText,tempbuf); /* restore previous data */
                strcat(teText,buffer);  /* add on new data */
                free(tempbuf);
        }

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