On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:26:05PM -0500, Tony Freeman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two problems I'm trying to work through that maybe someone here
> can help me with.
>
> I have a GtkEntry called a 'custom_command_entry'. I would like to trim
> white space from the beginning and end of what a user may enter in this
> field. custom_command_entry is a global.
>
> This is what I have so far:
>
> void on_executebutton_clicked (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
> {
> const gchar *custom_command;
> gchar *entry_wfo1, *entry_wfo2;
>
> /* GET THE BACKUP WFO SELECTION */
> entry_wfo1 = gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(combobox1));
>
> /* GET THE LOCALIZED WFO SELECTION */
> entry_wfo2 = gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(combobox2));
>
> /* GET THE CUSTOM COMMAND */
> custom_command =
> g_strdup(gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(custom_command_entry)));
> g_strstrip(custom_command);
>
> if (custom_command == NULL || sizeof(custom_command) <= 0) {
sizeof(custom_command) is the sizeof a const gchar* which will always
be greater than 0.
custom_command will never be NULL. As far as I know, the
defined behavior for g_strdup is to abort or somehow terminate
the application if the necessary memory allocation failed.
So, yes, the condition will always be false.
What you probably want to do is a simple strcmp(custom_command, "").
Also, don't forget to free custom_command.
-jkl
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