Method

GLibKeyFileset_comment

since: 2.6

Declaration

gboolean
g_key_file_set_comment (
  GKeyFile* key_file,
  const gchar* group_name,
  const gchar* key,
  const gchar* comment,
  GError** error
)

Description

Places a comment above key from group_name.

If key is NULL then comment will be written above group_name. If both key and group_name are NULL, then comment will be written above the first group in the file.

Note that this function prepends a ‘#’ comment marker to each line of comment.

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

group_name

Type: const gchar*

A group name, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
key

Type: const gchar*

A key.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
comment

Type: const gchar*

A comment.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
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 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: gboolean

TRUE if the comment was written, FALSE otherwise.