Add a helper function that strips trailing new lines and carriage
returns from strings. Call it chomp, after the perl function that
inspired it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebo...@tiscali.nl>
---
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index 0b7dc2fd7bac..51904c423411 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -248,6 +248,28 @@ e_out:
return -1;
}
+/*
+ * Return newly allocated copy of string "in" with all trailing new lines and
+ * carriage returns removed.
+ */
+static char *chomp(char *in)
+{
+ size_t last = strlen(in);
+ char *copy;
+
+ copy = malloc(last + 1);
+ if (!copy)
+ return NULL;
+
+ strcpy(copy, in);
+ if (last)
+ last--;
+ while (last && (copy[last] == '\r' || copy[last] == '\n'))
+ copy[last--] = '\0';
+
+ return copy;
+}
+
int conf_read_simple(const char *name, int def)
{
FILE *in = NULL;
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