Re: Tutorial

Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Stdio.stdin->gets();
>> foo
>> (1) Result: "foo\r"

>> That seems rather useless. It would break the API to fix it, but on
>> the other hand gets() is one of those functions you almost only use in
>> tutorials.

>Would it break the API? I mean, conceptually, it's retrieving a string
>terminated by end-of-line. On Windows, "end-of-line" is often "\r\n".

C89 specifies that this normally is solved by the distinction between
binary and ascii streams/files.

Opening with mode 'b' specifies a binary file, without a 'b' is an ascii file
(which on Windows means that line endings of \n are transparently converted
back and forth to \r\n on writing and reading).
See "man 3 fopen".
Pike should be able to put stdin into ascii mode to activate this behaviour.
-- 
Stephen.