Merge pull request #250 from xexyl/1994-ldb

Make 1994/ldb use fgets()

1994/ldb/README.md

@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Best One-liner:
 
-	Laurion Burchall
+Laurion Burchall
-	Brown University
+Brown University
-	Unit 4641
+Unit 4641
-	Providence RI 02912-4641
+Providence RI 02912-4641
-	USA
+USA
 
 ## To build:
 
         make all
 
 [Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this so it would
-compile and work with modern compilers. Thank you Cody for your assistance!
+compile and work with modern compilers. The problem was that `srand()` returns
-
+void but it was used in a `||` expression. Thus the comma operator was needed.
-NOTE: this entry uses `gets()` so you will likely get a warning on compilation
+Cody also changed the entry to use `fgets()` instead of `gets()` to make it
-and/or execution of the program.
+safe for lines greater than 231 in length. Thank you Cody for your assistance!
 
 
 ## To run:
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ and/or execution of the program.
 
 	some_command | ./ldb
 
-NOTE: input lines must be under 232 characters long.
 
 ## Try:
 
@@ -33,14 +32,15 @@ NOTE: input lines must be under 232 characters long.
 		Best One-liner\n
 		by Laurion Burchall" | ./ldb
 
-## Judges' comments
+## Judges' comments:
 
-Trigraphs are natural obfuscators.  Most C-beautifiers become 
+Trigraphs are natural obfuscators.  Most C-beautifiers become C-uglifiers
-C-uglifiers because they don't handle them correctly.
+because they don't handle them correctly.
 
-Can you figure out how it prints a given random line from stdin?
+Can you figure out how it prints a given random line (or if the line is longer
+than 231 characters, part of that line) from stdin?
 
-## Author's comments
+## Author's comments:
 
 All input lines must be under 232 characters long.  The compiling
 platform should be ASCII based.

1994/ldb/ldb.c

@@ -1 +1 @@
-int _,O,__??('}'??);main(){while(O?gets((rand()%O++?':':_)+__)||puts(&__??(_??))&_:(srand(time((O+++_))),0)||O);}
+int _,O,__??('}'??);main(){while(O?(fgets((rand()%O++?':':_)+__,232,stdin))||puts(&__??(_??))&_:(srand(time((O+++_))),0)||O);}

bugs.md

@@ -453,7 +453,22 @@ this simply does not work with them. Can you help us?
 
 # 1994
 
-## [1994/schnitzi](1994/schnitzi.c) ([README.md])(1994/schnitzi/README.md))
+## [1994/ldb](1994/ldb/ldb.c) ([README.md](1994/ldb/README.md))
+## STATUS: known bug - please help us fix
+
+[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this to compile
+with modern systems (see the README.md file for what had to change) but the
+entry also used `gets()`. This could overflow long lines. Cody changed it to
+`fgets()` but this introduces another problem namely that newlines can be
+printed if the line length < 231.
+
+This seems like a worthy compromise but it would be ideal for it to never print
+a newline unless that's the line itself (a blank line).
+
+Cody will be looking at this later on.
+
+
+## [1994/schnitzi](1994/schnitzi/schnitzi.c) ([README.md])(1994/schnitzi/README.md))
 ## STATUS: uses gets() - change to fgets() if possible
 
 The original buffer size of this entry is 100 which is very easily overflowed