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commit 1ca8a314f80274d06c887aa347ecb142487a946d
parent 7ed4866556a8208d8d0470e1dd1a4c0df68039b2
Author: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Date:   Sun,  2 Nov 2014 03:08:12 +0000

grep: Remove newlines before matching a line

Otherwise, a pattern with a '$' anchor will never match and POSIX says that

  "By default, an input line shall be selected if any pattern ... matches any
   part of the line excluding the terminating <newline>"

Diffstat:
Mgrep.c | 7++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c @@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ grep(FILE *fp, const char *str) int match = NoMatch; for(n = 1; (len = agetline(&buf, &size, fp)) != -1; n++) { + /* Remove the trailing newline if one is present. */ + if (len && buf[len - 1] == '\n') + buf[len - 1] = '\0'; for(pnode = phead; pnode; pnode = pnode->next) { if(regexec(&pnode->preg, buf, 0, NULL, 0) ^ vflag) continue; @@ -146,9 +149,7 @@ grep(FILE *fp, const char *str) printf("%s:", str); if(mode == 'n') printf("%ld:", n); - printf("%s", buf); - if(len && buf[len - 1] != '\n') - putchar('\n'); + puts(buf); break; } match = Match;