[jtp10181]

stock strip_newline(strip[])
{
 new len = strlen(strip)
 if (len <= 0) return
 if (strip[len]-1 == '^n') strip[--len] = 0
}

or something to that effect. Would come in handy esp for coders who are afraid of the fancy new file natives because of different things like the newline that is in the string.

[BAILOPAN]

wouldn't it be easier to just use trim()?

[jtp10181]

I didn't know trim removed newlines?
When the new file natives came out I remember in an examples post or a changes post there was an example of how to remove the newline, and it wasn't just "trim".

[BAILOPAN]

it removes whitespace and newlines are definitely whitespace.

the example was typical of my own parsing routines in C which take off the end newline but don't remove excess whitespace. it was probably a poor example.

but if you're using the C-based file natives rather than read_file(), it usually means you're writing your own optimized parser. the stock isn't as useful as it is inlined - the inlined version maintains the string length so you don't need to make extra calculations or multiple calls to strlen().

so, my feeling is that this is best left to the programmer, as long as the notice in the include is helpful.

[jtp10181]

yeah sounds good, didn't know trim would do it. Might not be a bad idea to mention that in the file include.