al_get_path_component(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, meet al_get_path_component — she’s straight from the Library Functions Manual and she’s repping the Allegro 5 API ✨. This is the page for al_get_path_component(3), and she’s here to hand you a piece of a path like the organized icon she is. lowkey ate and left no crumbs 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

include this and you’re in business, no cap:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

const char *al_get_path_component(const ALLEGRO_PATH *path, int i)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so picture a path as a cute little stack of folder crumbs 🍓 — this function returns the i’th directory component of that path, and the counting starts at zero, bestie. zero, not one. main character indexing only 💅.

if the index is negative, she counts from the right instead 🦋. like, -1 refers to the last path component, periodt. iykyk. the way that -1 just scoops up the last component is highkey iconic, and honestly? obsessed.

⚠️ but listen: it is an error to pass an index which is out of bounds. not a silly little oopsie, not a vibe check you can fail quietly — an error, fr fr 💀. ngl, keep your index in range, bestie.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_get_path_num_components(3) — go hang with her too, bestie 🫶
• al_get_path_tail(3) — another path-related bestie on the list 🌈

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