Re: Usage of g_str_strip

[Sankar P <psankar novell com>]

Thanks a lot. 
Your explanation was crisp/clear and probably could be added to devhelp.

Regards,
Sankar P

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:02 +0200, Iago Rubio wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:11 +0530, Sankar P wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > There is a function g_strstrip defined to strip-off the leading and
> > trailing spaces from a string. However, the working of this function is
> > a bit confusing.
> >
> > I have the following code-snippet :
> >
> > name = g_strstrip ( g_strdup (gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY
> > (name_entry))));
> > g_free (name);
> >
> > Is this leaking memory?
>
> No.
>
> >  I dont understand clearly how g_strstrip works. 
> > Do I need to store the g_strdup in a pointer and free it instead of the
> > name?
>
> No, you are freeing the memory allocated in g_strdup. g_strstrip does
> not allocate memory.
>
> >  The Devhelp doesnt clearly specify anything about it.
> > Please clarify. 
>
> #define g_strstrip( string )  g_strchomp (g_strchug (string))
>
> Both g_strchung and g_strchomp works with the string you passed to it
> and does not allocate memory.
>
> The first moves the text to the start of the buffer with g_memmove and
> the second just places a null character in each space character from the
> end of the buffer to the first non-space character.
>
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/gstrfuncs.c?
> rev=1.116.2.2&view=markup