/** @file

    $Id$

    $Date$
    $Author$

    @copy © Marc Wäckerlin
    @license LGPL, see file <a href="license.html">COPYING</a>

    $Log$
    Revision 1.2  2004/12/14 20:21:21  marc
    bugfix, now it works for empty lines

    Revision 1.1  2004/10/13 11:18:33  marc
    getline reads a whole line from a stream


*/

#include <stdext.hpp>

std::string mrw::getline(std::istream& is, char d) {
  std::string s;
  mrw::getline(is, s, d);
  return s;
}

std::istream& mrw::getline(std::istream& is, std::string& s, char d) {
  char buf[255];
  char c;
  s.clear();
  do {
    if (is) {
      if (is.get(buf, 255, d)) s += buf;
      is.clear(); // is.get fails if line is empty
      if (is.get(c) && c!=d) s+=c;
    }
  } while (is.good() && !is.eof() && c!=d);
  return is;
}