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 <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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; -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html