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  1. #include <stdio.h>
  2. #include <stdlib.h>
  3. #include <string.h>
  4.  
  5. /*
  6.  * Given a string which might contain unescaped newlines, split it up into
  7.  * lines which do not contain unescaped newlines, returned as a
  8.  * NULL-terminated array of malloc'd strings.
  9.  */
  10. char **split_on_unescaped_newlines(const char *txt) {
  11.     const char *ptr, *lineStart;
  12.     char **buf, **bptr;
  13.     int fQuote, nLines;
  14.  
  15.     /* First pass: count how many lines we will need */
  16.     for ( nLines = 1, ptr = txt, fQuote = 0; *ptr; ptr++ ) {
  17.         if ( fQuote ) {
  18.             if ( *ptr == '\"' ) {
  19.                 if ( ptr[1] == '\"' ) {
  20.                     ptr++;
  21.                     continue;
  22.                 }
  23.                 fQuote = 0;
  24.             }
  25.         } else if ( *ptr == '\"' ) {
  26.             fQuote = 1;
  27.         } else if ( *ptr == '\n' ) {
  28.             nLines++;
  29.         }
  30.     }
  31.  
  32.     buf = malloc( sizeof(char*) * (nLines+1) );
  33.  
  34.     if ( !buf ) {
  35.         return NULL;
  36.     }
  37.  
  38.     /* Second pass: populate results */
  39.     lineStart = txt;
  40.     for ( bptr = buf, ptr = txt, fQuote = 0; ; ptr++ ) {
  41.         if ( fQuote ) {
  42.             if ( *ptr == '\"' ) {
  43.                 if ( ptr[1] == '\"' ) {
  44.                     ptr++;
  45.                     continue;
  46.                 }
  47.                 fQuote = 0;
  48.                 continue;
  49.             } else if ( *ptr ) {
  50.                 continue;
  51.             }
  52.         }
  53.  
  54.         if ( *ptr == '\"' ) {
  55.             fQuote = 1;
  56.         } else if ( *ptr == '\n' || !*ptr ) {
  57.             size_t len = ptr - lineStart;
  58.  
  59.             if ( len == 0 ) {
  60.                 *bptr = NULL;
  61.                 return buf;
  62.             }
  63.  
  64.             *bptr = malloc( len + 1 );
  65.  
  66.             if ( !*bptr ) {
  67.                 for ( bptr--; bptr >= buf; bptr-- ) {
  68.                     free( *bptr );
  69.                 }
  70.                 free( buf );
  71.                 return NULL;
  72.             }
  73.  
  74.             memcpy( *bptr, lineStart, len );
  75.             (*bptr)[len] = '\0';
  76.  
  77.             if ( *ptr ) {
  78.                 lineStart = ptr + 1;
  79.                 bptr++;
  80.             } else {
  81.                 bptr[1] = NULL;
  82.                 return buf;
  83.             }
  84.         }
  85.     }
  86. }
  87.  
  88. int main(void) {
  89. 	// your code goes here
  90.     char line[80] = "52,243,,542";
  91.  
  92.     split_on_unescaped_newlines(line);
  93.     printf("line  %s\n", line[0]);
  94.     printf("line  %s\n", line[1]);
  95.  
  96. 	return 0;
  97. }
  98.  
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C (gcc 8.3)
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