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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-21 12:17:32 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-21 12:17:32 +0000
commitfd7d74b07ed17a52541fcf969cb5186ee511d485 (patch)
tree83b8846e98e1c52481c02d19c420ca23f8b0f450 /lib/libutil
parent3a28c19ca45e78f1f9fdd0902c5f4fd82f8d4942 (diff)
fix bad English, spelling, grammar, comma splices, etc.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libutil')
-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/fparseln.332
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/fparseln.3 b/lib/libutil/fparseln.3
index c08e2ca39c9..9ad5adea0d3 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/fparseln.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/fparseln.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fparseln.3,v 1.2 1999/07/20 16:45:30 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fparseln.3,v 1.3 1999/07/21 12:17:31 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fparseln.3,v 1.7 1999/07/02 15:49:12 simonb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Christos Zoulas. All rights reserved.
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ The
function
returns a pointer to the next logical line from the stream referenced by
.Fa stream .
-This string is null terminated and it is dynamicaly allocated on each
+This string is null terminated and dynamically allocated on each
invocation. It is the responsibility of the caller to free the pointer.
.Pp
-By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceeding escape
+By default, if a character is escaped, both it and the preceding escape
character will be present in the returned string.
Various
.Fa flags
@@ -63,13 +63,14 @@ The stream to read from.
.It Fa len
If not
.Dv NULL ,
-the length of the string is stored in the memory location to which it
-points.
+the length of the string is stored in the memory location referenced by
+.Fa len .
.It Fa lineno
If not
.Dv NULL ,
-the value of the memory location to which is pointed to, is incremented
-by the number of lines actually read from the file.
+the value of the memory location to which
+.Fa lineno
+references is incremented by the number of lines actually read from the file.
.It Fa delim
Contains the escape, continuation, and comment characters.
If a character is
@@ -106,13 +107,13 @@ The various flags, which may be
together, are:
.Bl -tag -width "FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM"
.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCOMM
-Remove escape preceeding an escaped comment.
+Remove escape preceding an escaped comment.
.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCCONT
-Remove escape preceeding an escaped continuation.
+Remove escape preceding an escaped continuation.
.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCESC
-Remove escape preceeding an escaped escape.
+Remove escape preceding an escaped escape.
.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCREST
-Remove escape preceeding any other character.
+Remove escape preceding any other character.
.It Dv FPARSELN_UNESCALL
All of the above.
.El
@@ -123,14 +124,15 @@ otherwise,
.Dv NULL
is returned.
.Pp
-The
+Internally, the
.Fn fparseln
-function uses internally
+function uses
.Xr fgetln 3 ,
so all error conditions that apply to
-.Xr fgetln 3 ,
+.Xr fgetln 3
apply to
-.Fn fparseln .
+.Fn fparseln
+as well.
In addition
.Fn fparseln
may set