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
11 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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16 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
17 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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 /* String utility functions that modify a string argument or
36 * return a constant string that must not be freed.
38 #define G_STR_DELIMITERS "_-|> <."
39 gchar* g_strdelimit (gchar *string,
40 const gchar *delimiters,
42 gchar* g_strcanon (gchar *string,
43 const gchar *valid_chars,
45 gdouble g_strtod (const gchar *nptr,
47 G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_strerror (gint errnum) G_GNUC_CONST;
48 G_CONST_RETURN gchar* g_strsignal (gint signum) G_GNUC_CONST;
49 gint g_strcasecmp (const gchar *s1,
51 gint g_strncasecmp (const gchar *s1,
54 gchar* g_strdown (gchar *string);
55 gchar* g_strup (gchar *string);
56 gchar* g_strreverse (gchar *string);
57 gsize g_strlcpy (gchar *dest,
60 gsize g_strlcat (gchar *dest,
63 gchar * g_strstr_len (const gchar *haystack,
66 gchar * g_strrstr (const gchar *haystack,
68 gchar * g_strrstr_len (const gchar *haystack,
72 /* removes leading spaces */
73 gchar* g_strchug (gchar *string);
74 /* removes trailing spaces */
75 gchar* g_strchomp (gchar *string);
76 /* removes leading & trailing spaces */
77 #define g_strstrip( string ) g_strchomp (g_strchug (string))
79 /* String utility functions that return a newly allocated string which
80 * ought to be freed with g_free from the caller at some point.
82 gchar* g_strdup (const gchar *str);
83 gchar* g_strdup_printf (const gchar *format,
84 ...) G_GNUC_PRINTF (1, 2);
85 gchar* g_strdup_vprintf (const gchar *format,
87 gchar* g_strndup (const gchar *str,
89 gchar* g_strnfill (gsize length,
91 gchar* g_strconcat (const gchar *string1,
92 ...); /* NULL terminated */
93 gchar* g_strjoin (const gchar *separator,
94 ...); /* NULL terminated */
95 /* Make a copy of a string interpreting C string -style escape
96 * sequences. Inverse of g_strescape. The recognized sequences are \b
97 * \f \n \r \t \\ \" and the octal format.
99 gchar* g_strcompress (const gchar *source);
101 /* Copy a string escaping nonprintable characters like in C strings.
102 * Inverse of g_strcompress. The exceptions parameter, if non-NULL, points
103 * to a string containing characters that are not to be escaped.
105 * Deprecated API: gchar* g_strescape (const gchar *source);
106 * Luckily this function wasn't used much, using NULL as second parameter
107 * provides mostly identical semantics.
109 gchar* g_strescape (const gchar *source,
110 const gchar *exceptions);
112 gpointer g_memdup (gconstpointer mem,
115 /* NULL terminated string arrays.
116 * g_strsplit() splits up string into max_tokens tokens at delim and
117 * returns a newly allocated string array.
118 * g_strjoinv() concatenates all of str_array's strings, sliding in an
119 * optional separator, the returned string is newly allocated.
120 * g_strfreev() frees the array itself and all of its strings.
121 * g_strdupv() copies a NULL-terminated array of strings
123 gchar** g_strsplit (const gchar *string,
124 const gchar *delimiter,
126 gchar* g_strjoinv (const gchar *separator,
128 void g_strfreev (gchar **str_array);
129 gchar** g_strdupv (gchar **str_array);
131 gchar* g_stpcpy (gchar *dest,
136 #endif /* __G_STRFUNCS_H__ */