Hello again,

For those, who only wants to know my question,
read this, for those who wants to get more back
ground on it keep reading:
--[ QUESTION
is there a way of knowing the size of a line, in
a file, for example:
If file "victor.txt" has a line like this:
"victor12345"
I want to be able to know, that the specific line
has 11 bytes in it. Anyone?



Im coding an application that at some point will
need to open a file with reading attributes, and
read line by line and compare two string using a string search
algorithm, if the string inside the line grabbed
from fgets, exist inside a string that comes from
a user input.

So, i've placed a call like this on my code,
(consider that the file is already opened and can
be viewed with fp descriptor)

char line[300];
while(fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) != NULL) {
searchalgorithm(line,outsidebuffer);
}

Now here come's my problem, when i do a call like
the fgets one i did above, it will put the content
of the line inside "line", however if line is < 300 bytes, then it will (by security measures, i think) fill up the restant of bytes with null chars, so looking from a program point of view,
if the string inside the file fp is: "seeweed",
with that fgets function what char line will hold is: "seeweed+293 NULL CHAR's", however if a user
types "seeweed" only, i will try to find:
"seeweed+293NULL chars" inside "seeweed", what
obviuslly doesnt exist...


So after this long story , here is my question,
is there a way of knowing the size of a line, in
a file, for example:
If file "victor.txt" has a line like this:
"victor12345"
I want to be able to know, that the specific line
has 11 bytes in it.

Anyone can help?
[]'z setuid