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#include <stdio.h>

/* The C Programming Language: 2nd Edition
 *
 * Exercise 1-16: Revise the main routine of the longest-line program so it
 * will correctly print the length of arbitrarily long input lines, and as
 * much as possible of the text.
 *
 * Answer: The key to arbitrary limits is buffering. Using a buffer allows you
 * to tackle a problem in chunks of memory instead of all at once. It's
 * slightly more complicated, but adds usefulness to a program.
 *
 * This solution, which was contributed by Isa (ibnIrshad), follows the spec
 * exactly, by only modifying main(), unlike many other solutions on the
 * internet.
 *
 * Assumptions:
 * 1. "arbitrarily long" is interpreted to mean upto the maximum size of an
 * integer on the given architechture, e.g. 2^32 unsigned on a 32-bit machine.
 * Indeed a string of that size would be larger than 4 gigabytes.
 * It is possible to deal with numbers larger than that, but it involves a great
 * deal of work abstracting away the concept of an integer, similar to
 * dynamically sized arrays.
 *
 * 2. EOF signal (Ctrl-D) must be given on an empty line
 */
#define BUFFSIZE 5 /* renamed MAXLINE and reduced it to 5 to demonstrate
we can handle lines much greater than this number*/

int getlinelen(char line[], int maxline);
void copy(char to[], char from[]);

/* print longest input line */
main()
{
    /* len of current line, max len seen so far, templen of buffer */
    int len, max, templen;
    char buffer[BUFFSIZE];

    max = len = 0;

    while ((templen = getlinelen(buffer, BUFFSIZE)) > 0) {
        len += templen;

        if (buffer[templen-1] == '\n'){
            if (len > max)
                max = len;
            len = 0;
        }
    }
    printf("\nLen of longest line: %d\n", max);
    return 0;
}

/* getlinelen: read a line into s, return length */
int getlinelen(char s[], int lim)
{
    int c, i;

    for (i=0; i<lim-1 && (c=getchar()) != EOF && c!='\n'; ++i)
        s[i] = c;
    if (c == '\n') {
        s[i] = c;
        ++i;
    }
    s[i] = '\0';
    return i;
}


/* copy: copy 'from into 'to'; assume to is big enough */
void copy(char to[], char from[])
{
    int i;

    i = 0;
    while ((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
        ++i;
}