EC_STRVEC_FROM_ARRAY(3)

💖 EC_STRVEC_FROM_ARRAY 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, section 3 — and we're talking about ec_strvec_from_array, which is genuinely the most "build me a whole new string vector out of thin air" function you will ever meet. No cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_strvec_from_array — literally just: allocate a new string vector. That's the whole job. She's an icon, she does one thing, she slays at it. 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <ecoli/strvec.h>

struct ec_strvec * ec_strvec_from_array(
    const char *const   *strarr,  /* The array of const strings. */
    size_t               n        /* The number of strings in the array. */
);

So she takes two things, right:

• strarr — the array of const strings. Yes, const char *const *, the double-const situation, she's committed, she's not touching your strings, periodt. 💅
• n — how many strings are in that array. You gotta tell her, she's not psychic, bestie. 🦋

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The string vector gets initialized with the array of const strings that you passed in as arguments. That's it. You hand her an array, she hands you a fresh little strvec holding those exact strings. it's giving "glow up, but make it data structure." ✨🌈

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

You get the new strvec object back — yay!! 🎉🫶

BUT. If something goes wrong, you get NULL instead, and errno is set. So like, always check, bestie. Not me ignoring a NULL return and then crying at 3am. 😭💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole girl gang, all up in here — go read these too fr fr:

• ec_strvec_set_attrs(3)
• ec_strvec_del_last(3)
• ec_strvec_val(3)
• ec_strvec_cmp(3)
• ec_strvec_sort(3)
• ec_strvec_get_attrs(3)
• ec_strvec_dup(3)
• ec_strvec_set(3)
• ec_strvec_len(3)
• ec_strvec_dump(3)
• ec_strvec_sh_lex_str(3)
• ec_strvec_add(3)
• ec_strvec_free(3)
• ec_strvec(3)
• ec_strvec_ndup(3)

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry. Respect the authors, they ate. 💖

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ok so that's the whole page, no skips, no summaries, every single detail preserved because that's just how we do it around here. 💅✨

and finally, the cute lil sign-off: this whole thing lives in libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and yes it's page EC_STRVEC_FROM_ARRAY(3) of the Libecoli Programmer's Manual. mwah. 🎀🦋💖