source: trunk/essentials/sys-apps/findutils/lib/nextelem.c

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findutils 4.3.2

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1/* Return the next element of a path.
2 Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
8
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
13
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
17 USA.
18*/
19
20/* Written by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org>,
21 inspired by John P. Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>. */
22
23#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
24#include <config.h>
25#endif
26
27#include <stdio.h>
28#if defined(HAVE_STRING_H) || defined(STDC_HEADERS)
29#include <string.h>
30#else
31#include <strings.h>
32#ifndef strchr
33#define strchr index
34#endif
35#endif
36#if defined(STDC_HEADERS)
37#include <stdlib.h>
38#endif
39
40#include "nextelem.h"
41
42
43/* Return the next element of a colon-separated path.
44 A null entry in the path is equivalent to "." (the current directory).
45
46 If NEW_PATH is non-NULL, set the path and return NULL.
47 If NEW_PATH is NULL, return the next item in the string, or
48 return NULL if there are no more elements. */
49
50char *
51next_element (const char *new_path, int curdir_ok)
52{
53 static char *path = NULL; /* Freshly allocated copy of NEW_PATH. */
54 static char *end; /* Start of next element to return. */
55 static int final_colon; /* If zero, path didn't end with a colon. */
56 char *start; /* Start of path element to return. */
57
58 if (new_path)
59 {
60 if (path)
61 free (path);
62 end = path = strdup (new_path);
63 final_colon = 0;
64 return NULL;
65 }
66
67 if (*end == '\0')
68 {
69 if (final_colon)
70 {
71 final_colon = 0;
72 return curdir_ok ? "." : "";
73 }
74 return NULL;
75 }
76
77 start = end;
78 final_colon = 1; /* Maybe there will be one. */
79
80 end = strchr (start, ':');
81 if (end == start)
82 {
83 /* An empty path element. */
84 *end++ = '\0';
85 return curdir_ok ? "." : "";
86 }
87 else if (end == NULL)
88 {
89 /* The last path element. */
90 end = strchr (start, '\0');
91 final_colon = 0;
92 }
93 else
94 *end++ = '\0';
95
96 return start;
97}
98
99#ifdef TEST
100int
101main ()
102{
103 char *p;
104
105 next_element (getenv ("PATH"));
106 while (p = next_element (NULL))
107 puts (p);
108 exit (0);
109}
110#endif /* TEST */
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