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--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted
- list using `filter_string_list`.
+ list using `filter_string_list`, or remove empty strings using
+ `string_list_remove_empty_items`.
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
@@ -75,13 +76,11 @@ Functions
to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are
retained.
-`string_list_longest_prefix`::
+`string_list_remove_empty_items`::
- Return the longest string within a string_list that is a
- prefix (in the sense of prefixcmp()) of the specified string,
- or NULL if no such prefix exists. This function does not
- require the string_list to be sorted (it does a linear
- search).
+ Remove any empty strings from the list. If free_util is true,
+ call free() on the util members of any items that have to be
+ deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are retained.
`print_string_list`::