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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index afe2759951..3350d97dda 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ then they will free() it. Remove the bytes between `pos..pos+len` and replace it with the given data. +`strbuf_add_commented_lines`:: + + Add a NUL-terminated string to the buffer. Each line will be prepended + by a comment character and a blank. + `strbuf_add`:: Add data of given length to the buffer. @@ -225,10 +230,20 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit. destination. This is useful for literal data to be fed to either strbuf_expand or to the *printf family of functions. +`strbuf_humanise_bytes`:: + + Append the given byte size as a human-readable string (i.e. 12.23 KiB, + 3.50 MiB). + `strbuf_addf`:: Add a formatted string to the buffer. +`strbuf_commented_addf`:: + + Add a formatted string prepended by a comment character and a + blank to the buffer. + `strbuf_fread`:: Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer. @@ -255,14 +270,46 @@ same behaviour as well. `strbuf_getline`:: - Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line + Read a line from a FILE *, overwriting the existing contents + of the strbuf. The second argument specifies the line terminator character, typically `'\n'`. + Reading stops after the terminator or at EOF. The terminator + is removed from the buffer before returning. Returns 0 unless + there was nothing left before EOF, in which case it returns `EOF`. + +`strbuf_getwholeline`:: + + Like `strbuf_getline`, but keeps the trailing terminator (if + any) in the buffer. + +`strbuf_getwholeline_fd`:: + + Like `strbuf_getwholeline`, but operates on a file descriptor. + It reads one character at a time, so it is very slow. Do not + use it unless you need the correct position in the file + descriptor. `stripspace`:: Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if comments are considered contents to be removed or not. +`strbuf_split_buf`:: +`strbuf_split_str`:: +`strbuf_split_max`:: +`strbuf_split`:: + + Split a string or strbuf into a list of strbufs at a specified + terminator character. The returned substrings include the + terminator characters. Some of these functions take a `max` + parameter, which, if positive, limits the output to that + number of substrings. + +`strbuf_list_free`:: + + Free a list of strbufs (for example, the return values of the + `strbuf_split()` functions). + `launch_editor`:: Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer |