Perl chomp() equivalent in C?

[mrmattborja]

I have the following lines in a simple for() loop:

time_t rightnow;
(void) time(&rightnow);
fprintf(fp, "[%s] waited for pass %d to finish", asctime(localtime(&rightnow)), i)

However, when I pull up the file that it's writing to (run.log), or even printing to STDOUT, it appears that asctime() or localtime() is adding an extra newline character because the result is...

[Sun Sep 17 20:15:55 2006
] waited for pass 0 to finish

instead of the originally intended/desired output being a single line...

[Sun Sep 17 20:15:55 2006] waited for pass 0 to finish

I've read somewhere that the function I'm looking for isn't part of regular C programming in that you'd have to pretty much build your own C version of the chomp() function handy in Perl (simply for trimming the last newline character).

Keeping in mind that this is writing to a log file and not the console, is there a way I can trim this newline character off the end of my or am I missing something here?

[sicarie]

I have the following lines in a simple for() loop:

time_t rightnow;
(void) time(&rightnow);
fprintf(fp, "[%s] waited for pass %d to finish", asctime(localtime(&rightnow)), i)

However, when I pull up the file that it's writing to (run.log), or even printing to STDOUT, it appears that asctime() or localtime() is adding an extra newline character because the result is...

[Sun Sep 17 20:15:55 2006
] waited for pass 0 to finish

instead of the originally intended/desired output being a single line...

[Sun Sep 17 20:15:55 2006] waited for pass 0 to finish

I've read somewhere that the function I'm looking for isn't part of regular C programming in that you'd have to pretty much build your own C version of the chomp() function handy in Perl (simply for trimming the last newline character).

Keeping in mind that this is writing to a log file and not the console, is there a way I can trim this newline character off the end of my or am I missing something here?

Yeah, as far as I know for C, there's not much pre-built to help (though all my teachers were more into "build it yourself and see how it works" than my Java teachers who had more of a "this is how you find out what's out there and use it" mentality. All that to say - I don't think so, but I don't know a lot of the libraries of C - I would imagine that someone has written one...

On your issue, if the timestamp is formatted like that - if it will always be the same length - you could just put it into a string and remove the '\n' (last position in the character array) yourself...