GLib.strdup_printf (original) (raw)

Function

GLibstrdup_printf

Declaration [src]


gchar*
g_strdup_printf (
  const gchar* format,
  ...
)

Description [src]

Similar to the standard C sprintf() function but safer, since it calculates the maximum space required and allocates memory to hold the result.

The returned string is guaranteed to be non-NULL, unless formatcontains %lc or %ls conversions, which can fail if no multibyte representation is available for the given character.

This function is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

format

Type: const gchar*

A standard printf() format string, but noticestring precision pitfalls.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

...

Type: ``

The parameters to insert into the format string.

Return value

Type: gchar*

A newly-allocated string holding the result.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.