ocaml/stdlib/filename.mli

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(* *)
(* Objective Caml *)
(* *)
(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
(* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with *)
(* the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE. *)
(* *)
(***********************************************************************)
(* $Id$ *)
(** Operations on file names. *)
val current_dir_name : string
(** The conventional name for the current directory (e.g. [.] in Unix). *)
val parent_dir_name : string
(** The conventional name for the parent of the current directory
(e.g. [..] in Unix). *)
val concat : string -> string -> string
(** [concat dir file] returns a file name that designates file
[file] in directory [dir]. *)
val is_relative : string -> bool
(** Return [true] if the file name is relative to the current
directory, [false] if it is absolute (i.e. in Unix, starts
with [/]). *)
val is_implicit : string -> bool
(** Return [true] if the file name is relative and does not start
with an explicit reference to the current directory ([./] or
[../] in Unix), [false] if it starts with an explicit reference
to the root directory or the current directory. *)
val check_suffix : string -> string -> bool
(** [check_suffix name suff] returns [true] if the filename [name]
ends with the suffix [suff]. *)
val chop_suffix : string -> string -> string
(** [chop_suffix name suff] removes the suffix [suff] from
the filename [name]. The behavior is undefined if [name] does not
end with the suffix [suff]. *)
val chop_extension : string -> string
(** Return the given file name without its extension. The extension
is the shortest suffix starting with a period, [.xyz] for instance.
Raise [Invalid_argument] if the given name does not contain
a period. *)
val basename : string -> string
(** Split a file name into directory name / base file name.
[concat (dirname name) (basename name)] returns a file name
which is equivalent to [name]. Moreover, after setting the
current directory to [dirname name] (with {!Sys.chdir}),
references to [basename name] (which is a relative file name)
designate the same file as [name] before the call to {!Sys.chdir}. *)
val dirname : string -> string
(** See {!Filename.basename}. *)
val temp_file : string -> string -> string
(** [temp_file prefix suffix] returns the name of a
fresh temporary file in the temporary directory.
The base name of the temporary file is formed by concatenating
[prefix], then a suitably chosen integer number, then [suffix].
The temporary file is created empty, with permissions [0o600]
(readable and writable only by the file owner). The file is
guaranteed to be different from any other file that existed when
[temp_file] was called.
Under Unix, the temporary directory is [/tmp] by default; if set,
the value of the environment variable [TMPDIR] is used instead.
Under Windows, the name of the temporary directory is the
value of the environment variable [TEMP],
or [C:\temp] by default.
Under MacOS, the name of the temporary directory is given
by the environment variable [TempFolder]; if not set,
temporary files are created in the current directory. *)
val open_temp_file :
?mode: open_flag list -> string -> string -> string * out_channel
(** Same as {!Filename.temp_file}, but returns both the name of a fresh
temporary file, and an output channel opened (atomically) on
this file. This function is more secure than [temp_file]: there
is no risk that the temporary file will be modified (e.g. replaced
by a symbolic link) before the program opens it. The optional argument
[mode] is a list of additional flags to control the opening of the file.
It can contain one or several of [Open_append], [Open_binary],
and [Open_text]. The default is [[Open_text]] (open in text mode). *)
val quote : string -> string
(** Return a quoted version of a file name, suitable for use as
one argument in a shell command line, escaping all shell
meta-characters. *)