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 -- Iago Rubio _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
