EC_NODE_ID(3)

💖 EC_NODE_ID — bestie gets a node's identifier 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, section 3, and it's about the tiniest little function that does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly. main character energy, honestly.

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✨ NAME ✨

ec_node_id — grab yourself a node identifier. that's it. that's the whole job. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

first things first, you gotta pull in the header, no cap:

#include <ecoli/node.h>

and then, the moment you've been waiting for:

const char * ec_node_id(
    const struct ec_node   *node   /* The grammar node. */
);

so you hand it a node — literally just the grammar node, that's the one and only thing it wants from you — and it hands you back a string. cute. simple. iconic. 🎀

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🫶 RETURN VALUE 🫶

it gives you back the node identifier string. like, the const char * string that is that node's id. that's the whole return value, bestie, no hidden lore, no error codes to stress about. 🦋

ngl it's giving "just read the docs and move on" and honestly? we love that for us.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay so this is the part where I list literally every single friend in the ec_node group chat, and I am NOT skipping a single one, periodt:

• ec_node_check_type(3)
• ec_node_iter(3)
• ec_node_attrs(3)
• ec_node_find(3)
• ec_node_type_name(3)
• ec_node_free(3)
• ec_node_type_dump(3)
• ec_node_get_config(3)
• ec_node_schema_dump(3)
• ec_node_priv(3)
• ec_node_type_lookup(3)
• ec_node_clone(3)
• ec_node_dump(3)
• ec_node_desc(3)
• ec_node_iter_free(3)
• ec_node_iter_get_parent(3)
• ec_node_from_type(3)
• ec_node_type(3)
• ec_node_iter_next(3)
• ec_node_type_schema(3)
• ec_node(3)
• ec_node_get_children_count(3)
• ec_node_get_type_name(3)
• ec_node_type_register(3)
• ec_node_set_config(3)
• ec_node_iter_get_node(3)
• ec_node_get_child(3)

all 27 of them, accounted for, not one left behind 💜 go read them, they're all slaying in their own way.

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💀 COPYRIGHT 💀

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 this one's from libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and it's EC_NODE_ID(3) — go forth and identify some nodes, you absolute legend ⭐🌈💖