Method

GLibKeyFileget_string_list

since: 2.6

Declaration 

gchar**
g_key_file_get_string_list (
  GKeyFile* key_file,
  const gchar* group_name,
  const gchar* key,
  gsize* length,
  GError** error
)

Description

Returns the values associated with key under group_name.

In the event the key cannot be found, NULL is returned and error is set to G_KEY_FILE_ERROR_KEY_NOT_FOUND. In the event that the group_name cannot be found, NULL is returned and error is set to G_KEY_FILE_ERROR_GROUP_NOT_FOUND.

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

group_name

Type: const gchar*

A group name.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
key

Type: const gchar*

A key.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
length

Type: gsize*

Return location for the number of returned strings, or NULL.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be NULL.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: An array of utf8

a NULL-terminated string array or NULL if the specified key cannot be found. The array should be freed with g_strfreev().

The array is NULL-terminated.
The length of the array is in the length argument.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.