From 3d24d1965908fe30fdf84ce65ccf421a6a900e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shaun Inman <shaun@panic.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 11:11:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added allocFile to utils

---
 src/common/utils.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/common/utils.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/common/utils.c b/src/common/utils.c
index 0a2de9f..2b712b8 100644
--- a/src/common/utils.c
+++ b/src/common/utils.c
@@ -120,6 +120,20 @@ void getFile(char* path, char* buffer, size_t buffer_size) {
 		buffer[size] = '\0';
 	}
 }
+char* allocFile(char* path) { // caller must free!
+	char* contents = NULL;
+	FILE *file = fopen(path, "r");
+	if (file) {
+		fseek(file, 0L, SEEK_END);
+		size_t size = ftell(file);
+		contents = calloc(size+1, sizeof(char));
+		fseek(file, 0L, SEEK_SET);
+		fread(contents, sizeof(char), size, file);
+		fclose(file);
+		contents[size] = '\0';
+	}
+	return contents;
+}
 int getInt(char* path) {
 	int i = 0;
 	FILE *file = fopen(path, "r");
diff --git a/src/common/utils.h b/src/common/utils.h
index e3962e1..0d14697 100644
--- a/src/common/utils.h
+++ b/src/common/utils.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ void trimTrailingNewlines(char* line);
 int exists(char* path);
 void touch(char* path);
 void putFile(char* path, char* contents);
+char* allocFile(char* path); // caller must free
 void getFile(char* path, char* buffer, size_t buffer_size);
 void putInt(char* path, int value);
 int getInt(char* path);