On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:14:43 +1200 "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/24/07, Felix Kater <fkater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the messages returned by PQerrorMessage() contain a trailing new > > line. So, they doesn't nicely integrate into strings formatted by > > printf. > > > > Is there a way to suppress the trailing new line (except for > > alloc/copy to a new string)? > The alloc kind of suggests that you're using C ... is that > correct? Either way - please be a bit more specific as to what you're > trying to achieve by which means. Sorry (was deep in thoughs while coding...). A bit more detailed: I am using libpq, the C language pg library. There is a useful function to return the last error message as human readable text: PQerrorMessage. While the returned text message is static memory which is good (you simply print it and don't have to free the memory) there is a trailing new line character at each text message like this: <message text><newline><0-byte-terminator> I find this newline a lot uncommon--since it is easy to add manually if you really want it, and, however, it is not so easy to get rid of it. Getting rid of it means: Copying the whole string without the newline, pass it to the user, who has to free the copied memory after printing it... I wanted to know if there is a switch or similar somewhere to get the messages without newline character. Thank You Felix
