win32utils devel - Apr 2013 - FFI and PathRemoveBackslash

Can someone provide me with a working example of PathRemoveBacklash and
FFI? I cannot get it to work right. It doesn''t seem to modify its
receiver.

# path_remove.rb
require ''ffi''

class Windows
  extend FFI::Library

  ffi_lib :shlwapi

  attach_function :PathRemoveBackslashA, [:buffer_out], :string

  def initialize(path)
    p path
    p PathRemoveBackslashA(path)
    p path
  end
end

Windows.new("C:\\")
# end path_remove.rb

I thought I''d asked this before at some point but I can''t find
any
reference to it, so my apologies if I''m repeating myself.

Regards,

Dan
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Hi,

2013/4/11 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
>
> Can someone provide me with a working example of PathRemoveBacklash and
FFI? I cannot get it to work right. It doesn''t seem to modify its
receiver.
>
> # path_remove.rb
> require ''ffi''
>
> class Windows
>   extend FFI::Library
>
>   ffi_lib :shlwapi
>
>   attach_function :PathRemoveBackslashA, [:buffer_out], :string
>
>   def initialize(path)
>     p path
>     p PathRemoveBackslashA(path)
>     p path
>   end
> end
>
> Windows.new("C:\\")
> # end path_remove.rb
>
I guess "C:\\" is a special case.

Here is a working code:
===require ''ffi''

class Windows
  extend FFI::Library

  ffi_lib :shlwapi

  attach_function :PathRemoveBackslashA, [:buffer_out], :string

  def initialize(path)
    p path
    while(PathRemoveBackslashA(path)=="");end
    p path.strip
  end
end

Windows.new("C:/work/test\\\\")
====
And, the old reference is
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/win32utils-devel/2005-August/000423.html
>
> I thought I''d asked this before at some point but I can''t
find any reference to it, so my apologies if I''m repeating myself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
Regards,
Park Heesob