RE: Search for SELECT / FROM parameters in a CGI source from RPG

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jim Langston wrote:

> Easiest way, read a single character at a time into a buffer until you hit
> an End of line character.  Then you have a line.  Create this in a
> subroutine once and be done with it.

The potential problem here is that there may not be an end of line
character reached before your buffer is filled.  In C this creates a
buffer overflow and in RPG an array index error.  A solution to this is to
allocate memory for a dynamic array as needed.  Then you just need to be
careful that you set a limit of some kind on how much memory your program
will allocate.  Your file may be very large and not contain any end of
line characters.  You could end up eating all the memory on the system.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com