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I'm going through the path functions, making them use the new UTF-8
routines and writing a test suite for them.
One behaviour which surprised me initially was al_path_set_extension.
al_path_set_extension("abc", "ext") ==> "abc.ext"
al_path_set_extension("abc.ext", "def") ==> "abc.def"
al_path_set_extension("abc.def", "") ==> "abc."
which makes sense, yet I was expecting the last call to result in "abc".
One way to resolve this is to define an extension to include the dot as
well. Then:
al_path_set_extension("abc", ".ext") ==> "abc.ext"
al_path_set_extension("abc.ext", ".def") ==> "abc.def"
al_path_set_extension("abc.def", "") ==> "abc"
Then al_path_set_extension could be used to remove the extension. Also
the first call doesn't magically grow a dot character out of nowhere.
al_path_get_extension would return the leading dot.
What do you think?
Peter