fix_filename_slashes(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 fix_filename_slashes — the Allegro manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the glow-up era of directory separators ✨ this one lives in the Allegro game programming library, and it's genuinely so useful it's giving main character energy.

✨ NAME ✨

fix_filename_slashes — converts all the directory separators to a standard character. Allegro game programming library. no cap. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

char *fix_filename_slashes(char *path);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: this function takes the filename chillin' inside path and converts all the directory separators to one standard character. literally all of them. every last one. 💅

which character, you ask? it depends on where you're running:

  • on DOS and Windows platforms, the standard character is a backslash.
  • on most other platforms, it's a slash.

like, it's platform-dependent and it knows what it's doing, trust. 🫶

here's the example, copied exactly so you don't come for me:

char buf[200] = "c:/dos\\backup/weirdo\\test";
...
fix_filename_slashes(buf);
/* Under DOS we would have c:\dos\backup\weirdo\test.
   Under Unix we would have c:/dos/backup/weirdo/test. */

see how chaotic that original string was? slashes AND backslashes just vibing in there all willy-nilly 😭 not anymore. one call and it's unified. iconic behaviour honestly.

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

it returns a copy of the path parameter. that's it. that's the whole return value. short king. 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ngl, if you're juggling paths from who-knows-where, this is the vibe check your filenames needed. run it before anything else touches that string. periodt. 💖

this page is from Allegro, version 4.4.3, and it's the fix_filename_slashes(3) entry in the manual. mwah, go forth and normalise your separators, bestie 🧚💜

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