Working with strings: GXLib Reference Manual

Working with strings

Working with strings — functions to create and manipulate strings and string-arrays.

Some functions for common operations on strings and arrays of strings.

GList *
gx_strv_to_list (gchar **strv,
                 gssize n);

Create a GList from the string in strv . The strings are not copied.

strv	an array of strings
n	the number of strings in the array, or < 0 if it is `NULL`-terminated.

a list with the strings; free with g_list_free().

GList *
gx_strv_to_list_copy (gchar **strv,
                      gssize n);

Create a GList from the string in strv and copy the strings.

strv	an array of strings
n	the number of strings in the array, or < 0 if it is `NULL`-terminated.

a list with the strings; free with g_list_free_full() using g_free().

gchar *
gx_utf8_flatten (const gchar *str,
                 gssize len);

Flatten some UTF-8 string; that is, downcase it and remove any diacritics.

str	a UTF-8 string
len	the length of `str` , or -1 if it is `NULL`-terminated

a flattened string, free with g_free().