getWord.h

#ifndef GETWORD_H
#define GETWORD_H

#include <stdio.h>

#define DICT_MAX_WORD_LEN	256		/* maximum length of a word (+1) */

/* Reads characters from fd until a single word is assembled */
/* and returns a copy of the word allocated from the heap.   */
/* NULL is returned at EOF.                                  */

/* Words are defined to be separated by whitespace and start */
/* with an alphabetic character.  All alphabetic characters  */
/* translated to lower case and punctuation is removed.      */

char* getNextWord(FILE* fd);

#endif