flower/include/file-path.hh

   1 /*
   2   file-path.hh -- declare File_path
   3
   4   source file of the Flower Library
   5
   6   (c) 1997--2007 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
   7 */
   8
   9 #ifndef FILE_PATH_HH
  10 #define FILE_PATH_HH
  11
  12 #include "std-vector.hh"
  13 #include "std-string.hh"
  14
  15 /**
  16    search in directories for a file.
  17
  18    Abstraction of PATH variable. An interface for searching input files.
  19    Search a number of dirs for a file.
  20
  21    TODO: add a unix style PATH interface
  22 */
  23
  24 class File_path
  25 {
  26   vector<string> dirs_;
  27
  28 public:
  29   vector<string> directories () const;
  30   string find (string name) const;
  31   string find (string name, char const *extensions[]);
  32   string to_string () const;
  33   bool try_append (string str);
  34   void append (string str);
  35   void parse_path (string);
  36   void prepend (string str);
  37 };
  38
  39 bool is_file (string file_name);
  40 bool is_dir (string file_name);
  41
  42 #endif /* FILE_PATH */