ColdC: Function/Method Reference: buf_to_str()

STRING buf_to_str(BUFFER buf)

This function converts the entire buffer specified by buf to a string. Newlines are converted to "\n". To just get the first string in the buffer you can do:

i = `[10] in buffer;
str = buf_to_str(subbuf(buffer, 1, i - 1));
buffer = subbuf(buffer, i + 1);