Is there a way to allocate memory for a character array without knowing in
advance what size you need? For instance, is there a way to allocate memory
based on the length of an input string after the fact? This is a point of
some confusion for me, and I don't want to go around creating arrays large
enough to cover any contingency. Is there some malloc trick I'm missing?
Pardon my newbieness.
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"Vincent Berkeley" <bo******@earth link.net> writes: Is there a way to allocate memory for a character array without knowing in advance what size you need? For instance, is there a way to allocate memory based on the length of an input string after the fact? This is a point of some confusion for me, and I don't want to go around creating arrays large enough to cover any contingency. Is there some malloc trick I'm missing?
No, there's no way to do that. Typically, you allocate some
relatively small buffer with malloc(), and then if the actual
string needs to be longer than space is available in the buffer,
call realloc() to expand it.
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news:87******** ****@pfaff.stan ford.edu... "Vincent Berkeley" <bo******@earth link.net> writes:
Is there a way to allocate memory for a character array without knowing
in advance what size you need? For instance, is there a way to allocate
memory based on the length of an input string after the fact? This is a point
of some confusion for me, and I don't want to go around creating arrays
large enough to cover any contingency. Is there some malloc trick I'm
missing? No, there's no way to do that. Typically, you allocate some relatively small buffer with malloc(), and then if the actual string needs to be longer than space is available in the buffer, call realloc() to expand it.
Thank you muchly.
Vincent Berkeley <bo******@earth link.net> wrote: Is there a way to allocate memory for a character array without knowing in advance what size you need? For instance, is there a way to allocate memory
No. There is no malloc(void) or any similar procedure.
based on the length of an input string after the fact? This is a point of some confusion for me, and I don't want to go around creating arrays large enough to cover any contingency. Is there some malloc trick I'm missing?
There are no tricks, this is a tedious programming task. You need
to preallocate a buffer and fill it with incoming data. When the
data fills the whole buffer, you have to reallocate the buffer
(a la realloc()) and continue reading data till you fill that one;
it's a recursive operation. You might have a linked list of buffers
and allocate a new one when the previous one has been filled.
There are many ways to do it, but all have a motive of a growing
buffer and controlling the input.
Another way is to guess the size (eg. for a file name 300 bytes should
be enough for practical reasons) and restrict the input to that size.
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Stan Tobias wrote: Vincent Berkeley <bo******@earth link.net> wrote:
Is there a way to allocate memory for a character array without knowing in advance what size you need? For instance, is there a way to allocate memory
No. There is no malloc(void) or any similar procedure.
based on the length of an input string after the fact? This is a point of some confusion for me, and I don't want to go around creating arrays large enough to cover any contingency. Is there some malloc trick I'm missing?
There are no tricks, this is a tedious programming task. You need to preallocate a buffer and fill it with incoming data. When the data fills the whole buffer, you have to reallocate the buffer (a la realloc()) and continue reading data till you fill that one; it's a recursive operation. You might have a linked list of buffers and allocate a new one when the previous one has been filled.
There are many ways to do it, but all have a motive of a growing buffer and controlling the input.
The simplest method is to get and compile ggets, available at:
<http://cbfalconer.home .att.net/download/>
That page also has a pointer to R Heathfields similar routine,
which has pros and cons. ggets is designed for maximal calling
simplicity with safety.
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