C read file line by line

Question

I wrote this function to read a line from a file:

const char *readLine(FILE *file) {

    if (file == NULL) {
        printf(\"Error: file pointer is null.\"         


        

Answer 1

My implement from scratch:

FILE *pFile = fopen(your_file_path, "r");
int nbytes = 1024;
char *line = (char *) malloc(nbytes);
char *buf = (char *) malloc(nbytes);

size_t bytes_read;
int linesize = 0;
while (fgets(buf, nbytes, pFile) != NULL) {
    bytes_read = strlen(buf);
    // if line length larger than size of line buffer
    if (linesize + bytes_read > nbytes) {
        char *tmp = line;
        nbytes += nbytes / 2;
        line = (char *) malloc(nbytes);
        memcpy(line, tmp, linesize);
        free(tmp);
    }
    memcpy(line + linesize, buf, bytes_read);
    linesize += bytes_read;

    if (feof(pFile) || buf[bytes_read-1] == '\n') {
        handle_line(line);
        linesize = 0;
        memset(line, '\0', nbytes);
    }
}

free(buf);
free(line);