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Read portably a string of arbitrary length from the console in C ( ANSI C89 / ISO C90 ).
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| #include <stdio.h> /* getchar() */ | |
| #include <stdlib.h> /* malloc(), realloc() */ | |
| #include <string.h> /* memcpy() */ | |
| /* ----------------------------------------------- | |
| * Create a new string (NUL-terminated array of chars) by reading the stdin. | |
| * Return the newly created string, or NULL on error. | |
| * Args: | |
| * int beExact: If 0 (false), then the size of the created string will | |
| * be an exact multiple of the internally used alloc-ahead |