More elegant way of removing/ignoring \n

[Marcb]

I'm putting together a small app that reads paths entered line by line in a text file.

I know the issue with reading a variable length line using Fgets and the newline character is as old as the hills but I was wondering if anyone has a more elegant way of dealing with the newline character than my method? :

Fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),*file);
buf[strlen(buf)-1]='\0';

It works but I always think it's too messy and that there must be a better way...

[Marcb]

That's a good point, these days it would be very likely the file would be edited on a Windows machine, thanks for the tip !