mention the problem with writing enums to wxConfig (see #8656)

[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wxcrt.h

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// Name:        wxcrt.h
// Purpose:     interface of global functions
// Author:      wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID:      $Id$
// Licence:     wxWindows license
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/** @ingroup group_funcmacro_string */
//@{

/**
    @return @true if the pointer is either @NULL or points to an empty string,
             @false otherwise.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
bool wxIsEmpty(const char* p);

/**
    This is a safe version of standard function @e strlen(): it does exactly
    the same thing (i.e. returns the length of the string) except that it
    returns 0 if @a p is the @NULL pointer.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
size_t wxStrlen(const char* p);

/**
    This function complements the standard C function @e stricmp() which
    performs case-insensitive comparison.

    @return A negative value, 0, or positive value if @a p1 is less than,
             equal to or greater than @a p2. The comparison is case-sensitive.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
int wxStrcmp(const char* p1, const char* p2);

/**
    This function complements the standard C function @e strcmp() which performs
    case-sensitive comparison.

    @return A negative value, 0, or positive value if @a p1 is less than,
             equal to or greater than @e p2. The comparison is case-insensitive.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
int wxStricmp(const char* p1, const char* p2);

/**
    @deprecated Use wxString instead.

    This macro is defined as:

    @code
    #define wxStringEq(s1, s2) (s1 && s2 && (strcmp(s1, s2) == 0))
    @endcode

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
bool wxStringEq(const wxString& s1, const wxString& s2);

/**
    @deprecated Use wxString::Find() instead.

    Returns @true if the substring @a s1 is found within @a s2, ignoring case
    if @a exact is @false. If @a subString is @false, no substring matching is
    done.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
bool wxStringMatch(const wxString& s1, const wxString& s2,
                   bool subString = true, bool exact = false);

/**
    This is a convenience function wrapping wxStringTokenizer which simply
    returns all tokens found in the given @a string in an array.

    Please see wxStringTokenizer::wxStringTokenizer() for a description of the
    other parameters.

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
wxArrayString wxStringTokenize(const wxString& string,
                               const wxString& delims = wxDEFAULT_DELIMITERS,
                               wxStringTokenizerMode mode = wxTOKEN_DEFAULT);

/**
    This function replaces the dangerous standard function @e sprintf() and is
    like @e snprintf() available on some platforms. The only difference with
    @e sprintf() is that an additional argument - buffer size - is taken and
    the buffer is never overflowed.

    Returns the number of characters copied to the buffer or -1 if there is not
    enough space.

    @see wxVsnprintf(), wxString::Printf()

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
int wxSnprintf(wxChar* buf, size_t len, const wxChar* format, ...);

/**
    The same as wxSnprintf() but takes a @c va_list argument instead of an
    arbitrary number of parameters.

    @note If @c wxUSE_PRINTF_POS_PARAMS is set to 1, then this function
          supports positional arguments (see wxString::Printf() for more
          information). However other functions of the same family (wxPrintf(),
          wxSprintf(), wxFprintf(), wxVfprintf(), wxVfprintf(), wxVprintf(),
          wxVsprintf()) currently do not to support positional parameters even
          when @c wxUSE_PRINTF_POS_PARAMS is 1.

    @see wxSnprintf(), wxString::PrintfV()

    @header{wx/wxcrt.h}
*/
int wxVsnprintf(wxChar* buf, size_t len,
                const wxChar* format, va_list argPtr);

//@}