source: web/old/remctl-2.14/util/concat.c @ f6f3e91

/*
 * Concatenate strings with dynamic memory allocation.
 *
 * Usage:
 *
 *      string = concat(string1, string2, ..., (char *) 0);
 *      path = concatpath(base, name);
 *
 * Dynamically allocates (using xmalloc) sufficient memory to hold all of the
 * strings given and then concatenates them together into that allocated
 * memory, returning a pointer to it.  Caller is responsible for freeing.
 * Assumes xmalloc is available.  The last argument must be a null pointer (to
 * a char *, if you actually find a platform where it matters).
 *
 * concatpath is similar, except that it only takes two arguments.  If the
 * second argument begins with / or ./, a copy of it is returned; otherwise,
 * the first argument, a slash, and the second argument are concatenated
 * together and returned.  This is useful for building file names where names
 * that aren't fully qualified are qualified with some particular directory.
 *
 * Written by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
 * This work is hereby placed in the public domain by its author.
 */

#include <config.h>
#include <portable/system.h>

#include <util/util.h>

/* Abbreviation for cleaner code. */
#define VA_NEXT(var, type)      ((var) = (type) va_arg(args, type))


/*
 * Concatenate all of the arguments into a newly allocated string.  ANSI C
 * requires at least one named parameter, but it's not treated any different
 * than the rest.
 */
char *
concat(const char *first, ...)
{
    va_list args;
    char *result, *p;
    const char *string;
    size_t length = 0;

    /* Find the total memory required. */
    va_start(args, first);
    for (string = first; string != NULL; VA_NEXT(string, const char *))
        length += strlen(string);
    va_end(args);
    length++;

    /*
     * Create the string.  Doing the copy ourselves avoids useless string
     * traversals of result, if using strcat, or string, if using strlen to
     * increment a pointer into result, at the cost of losing the native
     * optimization of strcat if any.
     */
    result = xmalloc(length);
    p = result;
    va_start(args, first);
    for (string = first; string != NULL; VA_NEXT(string, const char *))
        while (*string != '\0')
            *p++ = *string++;
    va_end(args);
    *p = '\0';

    return result;
}


/*
 * Concatenate name with base, unless name begins with / or ./.  Return the
 * new string in newly allocated memory.
 */
char *
concatpath(const char *base, const char *name)
{
    if (name[0] == '/' || (name[0] == '.' && name[1] == '/'))
        return xstrdup(name);
    else
        return concat(base != NULL ? base : ".", "/", name, (char *) 0);
}