Re: String equivalence in glib functions (such as g_slist_remove)

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:51:42PM +0100, j t wrote:
> ...
> I assume that this is because the dynamically allocated strings aren't
> "the same" (i.e. they're at different places in memory). What do
> people generally do when their idea of equivalence isn't the same as
> "=="? Is there some way of getting glib's functions to use an
> "equivalence function" rather than the "hardcoded" "=="?

Use g_slist_find_custom() to find the item using an
arbitrary comparison function (in the described example you
can directly pass a string comparison function) and then
remove it.  Most GLib data structures offer this kind of
functionality.

Yeti

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