On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:31:50AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
---
src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 +
src/util/virstring.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/util/virstring.h | 3 +++
tests/virstringtest.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index bc6588969..3d4da7356 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -2467,6 +2467,7 @@ virStringListGetFirstWithPrefix;
virStringListHasString;
virStringListJoin;
virStringListLength;
+virStringListRemove;
virStringReplace;
virStringSearch;
virStringSortCompare;
diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c
index 629f8ca32..96786db7f 100644
--- a/src/util/virstring.c
+++ b/src/util/virstring.c
@@ -202,6 +202,56 @@ virStringListAdd(const char **strings,
}
+/**
+ * virStringListRemove:
+ * @strings: a NULL-terminated array of strings
+ * @newStrings: new NULL-terminated array of strings
+ * @item: string to remove
+ *
+ * Creates new strings list with all strings duplicated except
+ * for every occurrence of @item. Callers is responsible for
+ * freeing both @strings and returned list.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of items in the new list (excluding NULL
+ * anchor), -1 on error.
+ */
+int
+virStringListRemove(const char **strings,
+ char ***newStrings,
+ const char *item)
+{
+ char **ret = NULL;
+ size_t i, j = 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; strings && strings[i]; i++) {
+ if (STRNEQ(strings[i], item))
+ j++;
+ }
+
+ if (!j) {
+ *newStrings = NULL;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (VIR_ALLOC_N(ret, j + 1) < 0)
+ goto error;
+
+ for (i = 0, j = 0; strings[i]; i++) {
+ if (STREQ(strings[i], item))
+ continue;
+ if (VIR_STRDUP(ret[j], strings[i]) < 0)
+ goto error;
+ j++;
+ }
+
Instead of going twice through the list, you can just do it once and
then VIR_REALLOC_N the list.