Though, one has to be careful about the fact that str* functions often
stop on NULs and that strbufs may have embedded NULs.
-An strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
+A strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs.
-strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
+strbufs have some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
* `struct strbuf`
This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
-determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to
-the string itself.
+determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides
+access to the string itself.
Functions
---------
Strip whitespace from the beginning of a string.
+`strbuf_reencode`::
+
+ Replace the contents of the strbuf with a reencoded form. Returns -1
+ on error, 0 on success.
+
`strbuf_tolower`::
Lowercase each character in the buffer using `tolower`.
`strbuf_addbuf`::
- Copy the contents of an other buffer at the end of the current one.
+ Copy the contents of another buffer at the end of the current one.
`strbuf_adddup`::
use it unless you need the correct position in the file
descriptor.
+`strbuf_getcwd`::
+
+ Set the buffer to the path of the current working directory.
+
+`strbuf_add_absolute_path`
+
+ Add a path to a buffer, converting a relative path to an
+ absolute one in the process. Symbolic links are not
+ resolved.
+
`stripspace`::
Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if