1 /* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
2 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
4 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
6 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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21 * Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000. See the AUTHORS
22 * file for a list of people on the GLib Team. See the ChangeLog
23 * files for a list of changes. These files are distributed with
24 * GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
27 #ifndef __G_STRFUNCS_H__
28 #define __G_STRFUNCS_H__
31 #include <glib/gtypes.h>
35 /* Functions like the ones in <ctype.h> that are not affected by locale. */
36 gboolean g_ascii_isalpha (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
37 gboolean g_ascii_isalnum (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
38 gboolean g_ascii_islower (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
39 gboolean g_ascii_isupper (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
40 gchar g_ascii_tolower (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
41 gchar g_ascii_toupper (gchar c) G_GNUC_CONST;
43 /* String utility functions that modify a string argument or
44 * return a constant string that must not be freed.
46 #define G_STR_DELIMITERS "_-|> <."
47 gchar* g_strdelimit (gchar *string,
48 const gchar *delimiters,
50 gchar* g_strcanon (gchar *string,
51 const gchar *valid_chars,
53 gdouble g_strtod (const gchar *nptr,
55 G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_strerror (gint errnum) G_GNUC_CONST;
56 G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_strsignal (gint signum) G_GNUC_CONST;
57 gchar* g_strreverse (gchar *string);
58 gsize g_strlcpy (gchar *dest,
61 gsize g_strlcat (gchar *dest,
64 gchar * g_strstr_len (const gchar *haystack,
67 gchar * g_strrstr (const gchar *haystack,
69 gchar * g_strrstr_len (const gchar *haystack,
73 /* removes leading spaces */
74 gchar* g_strchug (gchar *string);
75 /* removes trailing spaces */
76 gchar* g_strchomp (gchar *string);
77 /* removes leading & trailing spaces */
78 #define g_strstrip( string ) g_strchomp (g_strchug (string))
80 gint g_ascii_strcasecmp (const gchar *s1,
82 gint g_ascii_strncasecmp (const gchar *s1,
85 gchar* g_ascii_strdown (const gchar *string);
86 gchar* g_ascii_strup (const gchar *string);
88 #ifndef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
90 /* The following four functions are deprecated and will be removed in
91 * the next major release. They use the locale-specific tolower and
92 * toupper, which is almost never the right thing.
95 gint g_strcasecmp (const gchar *s1,
97 gint g_strncasecmp (const gchar *s1,
100 gchar* g_strdown (gchar *string);
101 gchar* g_strup (gchar *string);
103 #endif /* G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
105 /* String utility functions that return a newly allocated string which
106 * ought to be freed with g_free from the caller at some point.
108 gchar* g_strdup (const gchar *str);
109 gchar* g_strdup_printf (const gchar *format,
110 ...) G_GNUC_PRINTF (1, 2);
111 gchar* g_strdup_vprintf (const gchar *format,
113 gchar* g_strndup (const gchar *str,
115 gchar* g_strnfill (gsize length,
117 gchar* g_strconcat (const gchar *string1,
118 ...); /* NULL terminated */
119 gchar* g_strjoin (const gchar *separator,
120 ...); /* NULL terminated */
121 /* Make a copy of a string interpreting C string -style escape
122 * sequences. Inverse of g_strescape. The recognized sequences are \b
123 * \f \n \r \t \\ \" and the octal format.
125 gchar* g_strcompress (const gchar *source);
127 /* Copy a string escaping nonprintable characters like in C strings.
128 * Inverse of g_strcompress. The exceptions parameter, if non-NULL, points
129 * to a string containing characters that are not to be escaped.
131 * Deprecated API: gchar* g_strescape (const gchar *source);
132 * Luckily this function wasn't used much, using NULL as second parameter
133 * provides mostly identical semantics.
135 gchar* g_strescape (const gchar *source,
136 const gchar *exceptions);
138 gpointer g_memdup (gconstpointer mem,
141 /* NULL terminated string arrays.
142 * g_strsplit() splits up string into max_tokens tokens at delim and
143 * returns a newly allocated string array.
144 * g_strjoinv() concatenates all of str_array's strings, sliding in an
145 * optional separator, the returned string is newly allocated.
146 * g_strfreev() frees the array itself and all of its strings.
147 * g_strdupv() copies a NULL-terminated array of strings
149 gchar** g_strsplit (const gchar *string,
150 const gchar *delimiter,
152 gchar* g_strjoinv (const gchar *separator,
154 void g_strfreev (gchar **str_array);
155 gchar** g_strdupv (gchar **str_array);
157 gchar* g_stpcpy (gchar *dest,
162 #endif /* __G_STRFUNCS_H__ */