diff -r 000000000000 -r 7f85d04be362 upnpavcontrolpoint/avcpengine/src/upnpavcpenginehelper.cpp
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+++ b/upnpavcontrolpoint/avcpengine/src/upnpavcpenginehelper.cpp	Thu Dec 17 08:52:00 2009 +0200
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+/** @file
+* Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies  this distribution, and is available 
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:  helper class
+*
+*/
+
+
+#include "upnpavcpenginehelper.h"
+
+namespace UpnpAVCPEngine 
+{
+
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// UpnpAVCPEngine::StrToIntL
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//    
+TInt StrToIntL(const TDesC8& aValue)  
+	{
+	TLex8 returnedLex( aValue );
+	TInt value;
+	User::LeaveIfError( returnedLex.Val( value ));
+	return value;    
+	}
+
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// UpnpAVCPEngine::GetLastPathElementL
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//   
+HBufC8* GetLastPathElementL(TDes8& aPath) 
+	{        
+	RemoveSlashes(aPath);
+	TInt index = aPath.LocateReverse('/');
+	if (index == KErrNotFound) 
+	    index = 0;
+	                        
+	HBufC8* result = aPath.Right(aPath.Length() - index).AllocL();
+	TPtr8 ptr = result->Des();
+	RemoveSlashes(ptr);
+	aPath.Delete( index, aPath.Length() - index);
+	return result;                          
+	}
+
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// UpnpAVCPEngine::ParsePathToElementsL
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//   
+void ParsePathToElementsL(TPtr8 aPath, RPointerArray<TPtrC8>& aArray ) 
+	{
+	TChar delimiter('/');
+	RemoveSlashes(aPath);
+
+	TPtrC8 ptr(aPath);
+    TInt i = 0;
+
+	while(KErrNotFound != ptr.Locate(delimiter))
+	    {	
+	    aArray.Append( new (ELeave)TPtrC8() );
+		aArray[i]->Set(ptr.Left((ptr.Locate(delimiter))));
+    	ptr.Set(ptr.Right(ptr.Length() - (ptr.Locate(delimiter) + 1)) ); 
+	    i++;
+	    }
+	    
+	aArray.Append( new (ELeave) TPtrC8() );
+   	aArray[i]->Set(ptr);    		
+	}
+
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// UpnpAVCPEngine::RemoveSlashes
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//   
+void RemoveSlashes(TDes8& aPath) 
+	{
+	if (aPath.Length() > 0 && aPath[0] == '/' ) 
+		{        
+		aPath.Delete(0,1);
+		}
+
+	// remove ending '/' 
+	TInt length = aPath.Length();                
+	if (length > 0 && aPath[length-1] == '/' ) 
+		{
+		aPath.Delete(length-1,1);   
+		}	   
+	}
+
+}
+
+// End of File