DTDTSFILETOATTRIBUTEVALUE(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is the library call manual page for DtDtsFileToAttributeValue 💅 — and it's literally here to get a specified attribute value for a file. main character energy, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

copy-paste this exactly, bestie:

#include &<Dt/Dts.h>
char *DtDtsFileToAttributeValue(
const char *filepath,
const char *attr_name);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so DtDtsFileToAttributeValue returns a data attribute value for the specified file. It's giving "tell me one specific attribute about this file" energy, and honestly? Obsessed. ✨

The filepath argument is the pathname of the file. The attr_name argument is a pointer to an attribute name string. That's the whole tea, bestie 🫶.

🦋 RETURN VALUE 🦋

Upon successful completion, the DtDtsFileToAttributeValue function returns a pointer to a data attribute value string, or NULL if no value could be determined. So if it slays, you get the string pointer; if not, NULL and you move on 💀.

🎀 APPLICATION USAGE 🎀

The application should use the DtDtsFreeAttributeValue(3) function to release the memory for the returned value. bestie, pls free it — don't leave that memory hanging like an unread group chat 🙈.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

The following takes a list of files as arguments and determines the description of the data type for each file:

#include &<Dt/Dts.h>
#define ATTRIBUTE       "DESCRIPTION"
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
        char    *attribute;
        /* load data types database */
        DtDtsLoadDataTypes();
        argv++;
        while (*argv) {
                /* get attribute for file */
                attribute = DtDtsFileToAttributeValue(*argv, ATTRIBUTE);
                if (attribute)
                        printf("%s: %s0, *argv, attribute);
                argv++;
        }
        DtDtsRelease();
        exit(0);
}

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• Dt/Dts.h
• DtDtsLoadDataTypes(3)
• DtDtsRelease(3)
• DtDtsFreeAttributeValue(3)

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