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+#ifndef LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_
+#define LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_
+
+
+/* This file is part of indexlib.
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Luís Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>
+ *
+ * Indexlib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation and available as file
+ * GPL_V2 which is distributed along with indexlib.
+ * 
+ * Indexlib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ * MA 02110-1301, USA
+ * 
+ * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+ * permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
+ * the Qt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
+ * of Qt that use the same license as Qt), and distribute linked
+ * combinations including the two.  You must obey the GNU General
+ * Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
+ * Qt.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to
+ * your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If
+ * you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
+ * your version.
+ */
+
+#include "index.h"
+#include <memory>
+
+
+namespace indexlib {
+	namespace index_type {
+		enum type {
+			none,
+			ifile = 1,
+			quotes = 2
+		};
+	}
+	/**
+	 * Construct an index from a basename.
+	 *
+	 * Basename can be either a directory in which case the index will consist of a bunch of 
+	 * files in that directory all starting with "index" (this is the prefered usage: an index is a directory)
+	 * or it can be any other partial file name in which casethis name will be the starting name of all the 
+	 * index files.
+	 * 
+	 * If basename ends with '/' a directory is created if it does not exist.
+	 *
+	 * This will return something like "new quotes(basename)" but by using this, you do not need to include quotes.h
+	 * which needs boost headers also.
+	 */
+	std::auto_ptr<index> create( const char* basename, index_type::type flags = index_type::quotes );
+	namespace open_flags {
+		enum type { none = 0,
+			create_ifile = index_type::ifile,
+			create_quotes = index_type::quotes,
+			fail_if_nonexistant };
+	}
+	std::auto_ptr<index> open( const char* basename, unsigned flags = open_flags::fail_if_nonexistant );
+
+	/**
+	 * Removes the index.
+	 */
+	void remove( const char* basename );
+	/**
+	 * Returns true if an index with that name exists, false otherwise
+	 */
+	bool exists( const char* basename );
+}
+
+
+
+#endif /* LPC_CREATE_H1118420718_INCLUDE_GUARD_ */