I was thinking today about how lame it is when programs don't tolerate the three major line break formats (CR, LF, CR+LF), and wondering why so many developers fail to tolerate files from other platforms.
It's simple in JavaScript to split a string into lines regardless of CR, LF, or CR+LF:
text.split(/\r\n?|\n/mg)
But I was just thinking, maybe this is just difficult enough in other languages that programmers get lazy. C comes to mind: is it even possible to do this split with a one-liner in C? ANSI C has no builtin regex library AFAIK, so using a regex would be out of the question, and strtok only seems to support a static string delimiter.
But I haven't written any C in a long time...maybe there's a one-liner way to do it that I'm not aware of?
Or, perhaps there are some pitfalls to tolerating mixed line breaks like my above regex does?