al_create_path(3)

💅 al_create_path(3) — the Allegro 5 API glow-up

okay so real talk, this page is from the al_create_path(3) manual, living in the Library Functions Manual section of the Allegro 5 API. she's little but she's iconic, let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

al_create_path — Allegro 5 API. that's her, that's the whole name, we love a simple queen 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bestie, you gotta pull her in first:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_PATH *al_create_path(const char *str)

look at that signature. flawless. no notes 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so al_create_path makes a path structure out of a string. literally building a whole path struct from your lil text, slay ✨

here's the tea on how she decides what's what:

• the last component gets treated as the last directory name in the path if it's followed by a directory separator and it's neither "." nor ".." 🎀
• otherwise? the last component is treated as the filename. that's it, that's the rule 💅

and yes, the string may be NULL — that gives you an empty path, no cap 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go check out her friends, they're all main characters too:

• al_create_path_for_directory(3)
• al_destroy_path(3)

iykyk 🌈

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ok that's the whole page, hope it ate 💖 this was al_create_path(3) from the Allegro reference manual — yeah there's no date on this one bestie, the footer just says Allegro reference manual and honestly she's timeless for that 🌟 mwah, bye! 💜