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From: Gergo Barany <gergo AT tud DOT at>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: String substitution to another
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Date: 10 Dec 2001 15:47:45 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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[Followups to comp.lang.c only]

Aaron Evans <ahde AT oz DOT net> wrote:
>  how is
>  
>  gets(filename) || length > MAXLINELENGTH
>  
>  more dangerous than
>  
>  fgets (strline, MAXLINELENGTH, fileptr);

The first version never works correctly if the user can enter more
characters than the string filename can hold. (And you usually have
no control over the input from the user.)
The second can work if MAXLENGTH's value is appropriate (i.e. not
more than the length of strline).

Gergo

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