Question

Does fgets on a mac read until a carriage return ‘\r’ or does it also depend on the new line ‘\n’?

Reason is I am using fgets to read a file a line at a time. However if it is run on a mac file with only ‘\r’ for the line ending it fails to do what I want. (run in linux)

I don’t want to be writing library type functions to deal with cross compatibility issues. Is there another standard function that I could use instead?

Answer 1

If you’re strictly adhering to C, you could try using getdelim() if it’s available on your system.