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An obvious alternative is to leave room in the buffer for one more character, and when no new-line is transferred, append a new-line followed by a null-termination character. This approach is unsafe , because it quietly accepts an input that is not what was actually intended, with unknown consequences.
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CERT This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as : FIO36-CPP. Do not assume a new-line character is read when using fgets().
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.19.7.2, "The {{fgets}} function"
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\[[Lai 062006|AA. Bibliography#Lai 06]\] \[[Seacord 05a205a|AA. Bibliography#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 2, "Strings" |
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