This project was completed as part of the curriculum at School 42. The goal of the project is to implement a function that reads a line from a file descriptor, and to learn about memory allocation and file manipulation in the process.
To use the get_next_line function in your own projects, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository to your local machine.
- Open a terminal window and navigate to the root directory of the project.
- Run the command
maketo compile the library. - Include the header file
get_next_line.hin your source code.
The get_next_line function reads a line from a file descriptor, up to a specified delimiter (which defaults to the newline character). The function returns a pointer to a string containing the line read from the file, or NULL if there is no more data to read.
To use the function, simply call it with the file descriptor you want to read from, like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "get_next_line.h"
int main()
{
int fd = open("file.txt", O_RDONLY);
char *line;
while ((line = get_next_line(fd)) != NULL)
{
printf("%s\n", line);
free(line);
}
close(fd);
return 0;
}In this example, the get_next_line function is used to read lines from a file, which are then printed to the screen using printf.
This project was completed by Edgar Boutillot (edboutil) as part of the curriculum at School 42.