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'\" Copyright (c) 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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'\" SCCS: @(#) SplitPath.3 1.4 96/08/19 14:59:35
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.so man.macros
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.TH Tcl_SplitPath 3 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
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.BS
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.SH NAME
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Tcl_SplitPath, Tcl_JoinPath, Tcl_GetPathType \- manipulate platform-dependent file paths
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
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\fBTcl_SplitPath\fR(\fIpath, argcPtr, argvPtr\fR)
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char *
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\fBTcl_JoinPath\fR(\fIargc, argv, resultPtr\fR)
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Tcl_PathType
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\fBTcl_GetPathType\fR(\fIpath\fR)
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.SH ARGUMENTS
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.AS Tcl_DString ***argvPtr
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.AP char *path in
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File path in a form appropriate for the current platform (see the
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\fBfilename\fR manual entry for acceptable forms for path names).
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.AP int *argcPtr out
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Filled in with number of path elements in \fIpath\fR.
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.AP char ***argvPtr out
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\fI*argvPtr\fR will be filled in with the address of an array of
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pointers to the strings that are the extracted elements of \fIpath\fR.
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There will be \fI*argcPtr\fR valid entries in the array, followed by
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a NULL entry.
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.AP int argc in
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Number of elements in \fIargv\fR.
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.AP char **argv in
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Array of path elements to merge together into a single path.
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.AP Tcl_DString *resultPtr in/out
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A pointer to an initialized \fBTcl_DString\fR to which the result of
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\fBTcl_JoinPath\fR will be appended.
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.BE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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These procedures may be used to disassemble and reassemble file
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paths in a platform independent manner: they provide C-level access to
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the same functionality as the \fBfile split\fR, \fBfile join\fR, and
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\fBfile pathtype\fR commands.
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.PP
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\fBTcl_SplitPath\fR breaks a path into its constituent elements,
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returning an array of pointers to the elements using \fIargcPtr\fR and
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\fIargvPtr\fR. The area of memory pointed to by \fI*argvPtr\fR is
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dynamically allocated; in addition to the array of pointers, it also
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holds copies of all the path elements. It is the caller's
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responsibility to free all of this storage.
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For example, suppose that you have called \fBTcl_SplitPath\fR with the
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following code:
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int argc;
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char *path;
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char **argv;
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Tcl_SplitPath(string, &argc, &argv);
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.CE
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Then you should eventually free the storage with a call like the
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following:
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.CS
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Tcl_Free((char *) argv);
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.CE
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.PP
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\fBTcl_JoinPath\fR is the inverse of \fBTcl_SplitPath\fR: it takes a
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collection of path elements given by \fIargc\fR and \fIargv\fR and
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generates a result string that is a properly constructed path. The
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result string is appended to \fIresultPtr\fR. \fIResultPtr\fR must
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refer to an initialized \fBTcl_DString\fR.
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.PP
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If the result of \fBTcl_SplitPath\fR is passed to \fBTcl_JoinPath\fR,
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the result will refer to the same location, but may not be in the same
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form. This is because \fBTcl_SplitPath\fR and \fBTcl_JoinPath\fR
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eliminate duplicate path separators and return a normalized form for
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each platform.
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.PP
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\fBTcl_GetPathType\fR returns the type of the specified \fIpath\fR,
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where \fBTcl_PathType\fR is one of \fBTCL_PATH_ABSOLUTE\fR,
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\fBTCL_PATH_RELATIVE\fR, or \fBTCL_PATH_VOLUME_RELATIVE\fR. See the
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\fBfilename\fR manual entry for a description of the path types for
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each platform.
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.SH KEYWORDS
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file, filename, join, path, split, type
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