Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Trailing Newlines
Date: Sunday, 29 Mar 2020, 16:12:31

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > I am a bit confused of why we need to remove trailing newlines ("removes
    > their trailing newlines if any"). Could I possibly get an example of when
    > it becomes a problem when I do not because the public cases are working
    > for me.

As I posted earlier:

  Date: 23 Mar 2020 10:22:33 -0400 (Mon)
  Subject: Re: [Cs223] remove trailing newlines
   
      > 3. What is the point of removing trailing newlines? Can't we just
      > process each line with the last character as a newline?
   
  Hint: '\t' < '\n', but for sorting purposes you want
  "a" < "a\tb".
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As I posted earlier:

    > Also since we do have to remove trailing newlines, is there a c function
    > that assists in doing this for us from getline?

  Date: 15 Mar 2020 13:21:37 -0400 (Sun)
  Subject: Re: [Cs223] Removing trailing newlines from input from file(s)
   
      > Message Posted By: Unknown
      >
      > When using getline() to get lines from a file, is there an easier way to
      > remove trailing newlines than writing a function that traverses the line
      > buffer after calling getline() until it finds a newline and then
      > reallocating the line buffer and removing the newline if it finds one?
   
  See strrchr() (or "man strrchr" for details).

--Stan-