skroll

scroll a text to stdout
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commit 2a674f4c077001e6e73e036457eadfec23d5a8e0
parent 196ffc4e7bbc0c0893c98d604768f18daa316e38
Author: z3bra <willy@mailoo.org>
Date:   Mon Nov  3 11:19:08 2014

Cleaned code formatting, added comments

Diffstat:
 skroll.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/skroll.c b/skroll.c @@ -32,41 +32,46 @@ static int number = 20; /* number of chars to be shown at the same time */ void skroll (const char *input) { int offset, buflen = 0; - char *buf = NULL; - - buflen = strnlen( input, LINE_MAX ) + ( number * 2 ) + 1; - - buf = calloc( buflen, sizeof( char ) ); - - if ( buf == NULL ) + char *tmp, *buf = NULL; + + /* + * allocate a new buffer to hold our input PLUS number spaces at the + * start/end of the string + */ + buflen = strnlen(input, LINE_MAX) + (number * 2) + 1; + if ((buf = calloc(buflen, sizeof(char))) == NULL) { return; } /* initialize memory with "spaces" and null-terminate the buffer */ - memset( buf, 0x20, buflen - 1 ); - buf[ buflen - 1 ] = 0; + memset(buf, ' ', buflen - 1); + buf[buflen - 1] = 0; /* copy input at place `number` */ - memcpy( buf + number, input, strlen( input ) ); + memcpy(buf + number, input, strlen(input)); /* remove \n from input string to sanitize output */ - if ( buf[ number + strlen( input ) - 1 ] == '\n' ) + if ((tmp = strchr(buf, '\n')) != NULL) { - buf[ number + strlen( input ) - 1 ] = 0x20; + tmp[0] = ' '; } /* main loop. will loop forever if run with -l */ - do { - - offset = 0; - - /* loop executed on each step, after <delay> seconds */ - while ( buf [ offset + number ] != 0 ) { + do + { + /* + * each step of the loop will print the buffer, one byte further after each step. + * using a carriage return, it makes the text scroll out. Magic.. + * leading/ending spaces are here to make sure that the text goes from + * far right, and goes all the way to far left + */ + for (offset = 0; buf [offset + number] != 0; offset++) + { /* print out `number` characters from the buffer ! */ - putc( '\r', stdout ); - write( 1, buf + offset, number ); + putc('\r', stdout); + write(1, buf + offset, number); /* if we want a new line, let's do it here */ if (newline) putc('\n', stdout); @@ -74,7 +79,6 @@ void skroll (const char *input) /* flush stdout, and wait for the next step */ fflush(stdout); usleep(delay*1000000); - offset++; } /* magnolia ? FOWEVA ! */ } while(loop); @@ -88,12 +92,13 @@ const char *bufferize (FILE *stream) char *buf = NULL; /* allocate space to store the input */ - if ( !(buf = calloc (LINE_MAX + 1, sizeof(char))) ) return NULL; + if (!(buf = calloc (LINE_MAX + 1, sizeof(char)))) { return NULL; } /* buf[LINE_MAX] = 0; */ - memset( buf, 0, LINE_MAX + 1 ); + memset(buf, 0, LINE_MAX + 1); /* OMG, NO MORE SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE (or no more input, in fact) */ - if ( feof(stream) || !fgets(buf, LINE_MAX, stream) ) { + if (feof(stream) || !fgets(buf, LINE_MAX, stream)) + { free (buf); return NULL; } @@ -106,8 +111,10 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) char ch; const char *buf = NULL; - while ( (ch = getopt(argc, argv, "hd:ln:r")) != -1 ) { - switch (ch) { + while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "hd:ln:r")) != -1) + { + switch (ch) + { case 'h': printf("usage: %s [-hlr] [-d delay] [-n number]\n", argv[0]); exit(0); @@ -120,7 +127,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) } /* SCROLL ALL THE TEXT! */ - while( (buf = bufferize(stdin)) != NULL ) { + while((buf = bufferize(stdin)) != NULL) + { skroll(buf); }