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--2005 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
   7 */
   8
   9 #ifndef FILE_PATH_HH
  10 #define FILE_PATH_HH
  11
  12 #include "array.hh"
  13 #include "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   Array<String> dirs_;
  27 public:
  28   Array<String> directories () const;
  29   String find (String name) const;
  30   String find (String name, char const *extensions[]);
  31   String to_string () const;
  32   bool try_append (String str);
  33   void append (String str);
  34   void parse_path (String);
  35   void prepend (String str);
  36 };
  37
  38 bool is_file (String file_name);
  39 bool is_dir (String file_name);
  40
  41 #endif /* FILE_PATH */