Re: how to read a file into a GString

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Peter Jay Salzman <p dirac org> writes:
> bleah.  i was hoping for a more general function.  something along the
> line of fgets.

It's really trivial using GString:

void
read_data (GString *str, FILE *f)
{
  char buf[BUFSIZE];

  if (fgets (buf, BUFSIZE, f) != NULL)
    g_string_append (str, buf);
  else if (ferror (f))
    {
      /* handle error */
    }
  else
    {
      /* end of file */
    }
}

or something along those lines. 

I thought g_file_get_contents() was implemented this way, but it isn't
anymore since it handles out-of-memory and thus doesn't use GString.

Havoc