Utility function: 'chomp'.

Basically like Perl's, only we forgive \r\n line endings.

misc.c

@@ -473,6 +473,24 @@ char *fgetline(FILE *fp)
     return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Perl-style 'chomp', for a line we just read with fgetline. Unlike
+ * Perl chomp, however, we're deliberately forgiving of strange
+ * line-ending conventions. Also we forgive NULL on input, so you can
+ * just write 'line = chomp(fgetline(fp));' and not bother checking
+ * for NULL until afterwards.
+ */
+char *chomp(char *str)
+{
+    if (str) {
+        int len = strlen(str);
+        while (len > 0 && (str[len-1] == '\r' || str[len-1] == '\n'))
+            len--;
+        str[len] = '\0';
+    }
+    return str;
+}
+
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Core base64 encoding and decoding routines.
  */

misc.h

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ void burnstr(char *string);
 int toint(unsigned);
 
 char *fgetline(FILE *fp);
+char *chomp(char *str);
 
 void base64_encode_atom(unsigned char *data, int n, char *out);
 int base64_decode_atom(char *atom, unsigned char *out);