Reading files with DOS line endings using fgets() on linux

Question

I have a file with DOS line endings that I receive at run-time, so I cannot convert the line endings to UNIX-style offline. Also, my app runs on both Windows and Linux. My app d

Answer 1

Although the other answers gave satisfying information regarind the question what kind of line ending would be returned for a DOS file read under UNIX, I'd like to mentioned an alternative way to chop off such line endings.

The significant difference is, that the following approach is multi-byte-character save, as it does not involve any characters directly:

if (pszLine && (2 <= strlen(pszLine)))
{ 
  size_t size = strcspn(pszLine, "\r\n"); 
  pszLine[size] = 0; 
}