Function

Gimpcanonicalize_identifier

since: 2.4

Declaration [src]

gchar*
gimp_canonicalize_identifier (
  const gchar* identifier
)

Description [src]

Turns any input string into a canonicalized string.

Canonical identifiers are e.g. expected by the PDB for procedure and parameter names. Every character of the input string that is not either ‘-‘, ‘a-z’, ‘A-Z’ or ‘0-9’ will be replaced by a ‘-‘.

Available since: 2.4

Parameters

identifier

Type: const gchar*

The identifier string to canonicalize.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gchar*

The canonicalized identifier. This is a newly allocated string that should be freed with g_free() when no longer needed.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.