C read file line by line

Question

I wrote this function to read a line from a file:

const char *readLine(FILE *file) {

    if (file == NULL) {
        printf(\"Error: file pointer is null.\"         


        

Answer 1

Provide a portable and generic getdelim function, test passed via msvc, clang, gcc.

#include 
#include 
#include 

ssize_t
portabl_getdelim(char ** restrict linep,
                 size_t * restrict linecapp,
                 int delimiter,
                 FILE * restrict stream) {
    if (0 == *linep) {
        *linecapp = 8;
        *linep = malloc(*linecapp);
        if (0 == *linep) {
            return EOF;
        }
    }

    ssize_t linelen = 0;
    int c = 0;
    char *p = *linep;

    while (EOF != (c = fgetc(stream))) {
        if (linelen == (ssize_t) *linecapp - 1) {
            *linecapp <<= 1;
            char *p1 = realloc(*linep, *linecapp);
            if (0 == *p1) {
                return EOF;
            }
            p = p1 + linelen;
        }
        *p++ = c;
        linelen++;

        if (delimiter == c) {
            *p = 0;
            return linelen;
        }
    }
    return EOF == c ? EOF : linelen;
}


int
main(int argc, char **argv) {
    const char *filename = "/a/b/c.c";
    FILE *file = fopen(filename, "r");
    if (!file) {
        perror(filename);
        return 1;
    }

    char *line = 0;
    size_t linecap = 0;
    ssize_t linelen;

    while (0 < (linelen = portabl_getdelim(&line, &linecap, '\n', file))) {
        fwrite(line, linelen, 1, stdout);
    }
    if (line) {
        free(line);
    }
    fclose(file);   

    return 0;
}