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Bug 631210 - Missing strv functions
Missing strv functions
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
: 708250 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-03 07:17 UTC by Sergey V. Udaltsov
Modified: 2018-05-24 12:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Minimal set of useful additions (713 bytes, text/plain)
2010-10-04 10:14 UTC, Sergey V. Udaltsov 		Details

Description Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-10-03 07:17:09 UTC 
There is very useful data type half-supported by glib - the NULL-ended array of pointers to strings. Some functions are missing:
- insert at position
- delete at position
- search
It is not a problem to implement them when they are needed - but perhaps it would be useful to have them in glib code
Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-10-03 07:47:40 UTC 
These functions become of more importance since people are moving stuff to gsettings which have set_strv and get_strv functions.
Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-10-04 10:11:16 UTC 
Another useful one: "behead" - free first element and shift all pointers down.
Comment 3 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-10-04 10:14:37 UTC 
Created attachment 171681 [details]
Minimal set of useful additions
Comment 4 Xavier Claessens 2012-10-10 12:22:57 UTC 
I don't think we want to make GStrv modifiable, all the array resizing magic is already in GPtrArray:

GPtrArray *array;
GStrv strv;

array = g_ptr_array_sized_new (2);
g_ptr_array_add (array, g_strdup ("foo"));
g_ptr_array_add (array, g_strdup ("bar"));
...
g_ptr_array_add (array, NULL);
strv = g_ptr_array_free (array, FALSE);
Comment 5 Xavier Claessens 2012-10-10 12:56:02 UTC 
I could help to have g_ptr_array_set_null_terminated() though. Like GArray's zero_terminated. Like that array->pdata is always a GStrv.
Comment 6 Xavier Claessens 2013-09-17 16:01:50 UTC 
*** Bug 708250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2013-09-18 00:46:55 UTC 
It's come up a few times that it may actually be useful to have a GPtrArray subset functionality specifically useful for strings (just as GPtrArray is a GArray for pointers).
Comment 8 Philip Withnall 2014-11-25 12:54:13 UTC 
g_strv_contains() is implemented in bug #685880.
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 12:47:37 UTC 
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