+ /* cut trailing newline or carriage return */
+ for (line_ptr = &line[strlen(line)]; line_ptr >= line; line_ptr--)
+ if ((*line_ptr == '\n' || *line_ptr == '\r') && *(line_ptr + 1) == '\0')
+ *line_ptr = '\0';
+
+ if (read_continued_line)
+ {
+ /* cut leading whitespaces from input line */
+ for (line_ptr = line; *line_ptr; line_ptr++)
+ if (*line_ptr != ' ' && *line_ptr != '\t')
+ break;
+
+ /* append new line to existing line, if there is enough space */
+ if (strlen(previous_line) + strlen(line_ptr) < MAX_LINE_LEN)
+ strcat(previous_line, line_ptr);
+
+ strcpy(line, previous_line); /* copy storage buffer to line */
+
+ read_continued_line = FALSE;
+ }
+
+ /* if the last character is '\', continue at next line */
+ if (strlen(line) > 0 && line[strlen(line) - 1] == '\\')
+ {
+ line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0'; /* cut off trailing backslash */
+ strcpy(previous_line, line); /* copy line to storage buffer */
+
+ read_continued_line = TRUE;
+
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* cut trailing comment from input line */