MASM 5.10 EXT.DOC: GetLine - Retrieves Line of Text

ID Number: Q31521

5.10 | 5.10

MS-DOS | OS/2

Summary:

The following information is from the MASM Version 5.10 EXT.DOC

file.

Please note that numbering for both COL and LINE variables begins

with 0.

More Information:

/* GetLine - retrieves a line of text

*

* The GetLine function retrieves a line of text from the specified

* file and places the text in the specified buffer. The text has

* all tabs expanded into spaces, and no carriage-return or line-feed

* character is included. Lines requested beyond the end of the file

* are considered empty.

*

* line Number of the line to be retrieved

* buf Buffer for text of the line

* pfile Handle of file from which the line is to be retrieved

*

* returns The number of characters retrieved

*/

int pascal GetLine (line, buf, pfile)

LINE line;

char far *buf;

PFILE pfile;