cleaner way to write this?

[John Salerno]

Neil Cerutti wrote:

>   This completes our C version [of a csv reading library]. It
>   handles arbitrarily large inputs and does something sensible
>   even with perverse data. The price is that it is more than four
>   times as long as the first prototype and some of the code is
>   intricate. Such expansion of size and complexity is a typical
>   result of moving from prototype to production.

LOL. Guess I'm doing things right, then? ;)