Memory-managed wrapper type.

Construct a PathBuf struct initialized to zero.

Clears the contents of the path buffer.

This function should be use to free the resources in a stack-allocated GPathBuf initialized using pathBufInit or pathBufInitFromPath.

Since: 2.76

Clears the contents of the path buffer and returns the built path.

This function returns NULL if the GPathBuf is empty.

See also: pathBufToPath

Since: 2.76

Compares two path buffers for equality and returns TRUE if they are equal.

The path inside the paths buffers are not going to be normalized, so X/Y/Z/A/.., X/./Y/Z and X/Y/Z are not going to be considered equal.

This function can be passed to g_hash_table_new() as the key_equal_func parameter.

Since: 2.76

Frees a GPathBuf allocated by g_path_buf_new().

Since: 2.76

Frees a GPathBuf allocated by g_path_buf_new(), and returns the path inside the buffer.

This function returns NULL if the GPathBuf is empty.

See also: pathBufToPath

Since: 2.76

Initializes a GPathBuf instance.

Since: 2.76

Initializes a GPathBuf instance with the given path.

Since: 2.76

Removes the last element of the path buffer.

If there is only one element in the path buffer (for example, / on Unix-like operating systems or the drive on Windows systems), it will not be removed and False will be returned instead.

C code

GPathBuf buf, cmp;

g_path_buf_init_from_path (&buf, "/bin/sh");

g_path_buf_pop (&buf);
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/bin");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp));
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_pop (&buf);
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp));
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_clear (&buf);

Since: 2.76

Extends the given path buffer with path.

If path is absolute, it replaces the current path.

If path contains a directory separator, the buffer is extended by as many elements the path provides.

On Windows, both forward slashes and backslashes are treated as directory separators. On other platforms, DIR_SEPARATOR_S is the only directory separator.

C code

GPathBuf buf, cmp;

g_path_buf_init_from_path (&buf, "/tmp");
g_path_buf_push (&buf, ".X11-unix/X0");
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/tmp/.X11-unix/X0");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp));
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_push (&buf, "/etc/locale.conf");
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/etc/locale.conf");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp));
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_clear (&buf);

Since: 2.76

Adds an extension to the file name in the path buffer.

If extension is NULL, the extension will be unset.

If the path buffer does not have a file name set, this function returns FALSE and leaves the path buffer unmodified.

Since: 2.76

Sets the file name of the path.

If the path buffer is empty, the filename is left unset and this function returns FALSE.

If the path buffer only contains the root element (on Unix-like operating systems) or the drive (on Windows), this is the equivalent of pushing the new fileName.

If the path buffer contains a path, this is the equivalent of popping the path buffer and pushing fileName, creating a sibling of the original path.

C code

GPathBuf buf, cmp;

g_path_buf_init_from_path (&buf, "/");

g_path_buf_set_filename (&buf, "bar");
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/bar");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp));
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_set_filename (&buf, "baz.txt");
g_path_buf_init_from_path (&cmp, "/baz.txt");
g_assert_true (g_path_buf_equal (&buf, &cmp);
g_path_buf_clear (&cmp);

g_path_buf_clear (&buf);

Since: 2.76

Retrieves the built path from the path buffer.

On Windows, the result contains backslashes as directory separators, even if forward slashes were used in input.

If the path buffer is empty, this function returns NULL.

Since: 2.76