1 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // This file defines utility functions for working with strings.
7 #ifndef BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
8 #define BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
11 #include <stdarg.h> // va_list
16 #include "base/base_export.h"
17 #include "base/basictypes.h"
18 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
19 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
20 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h" // For implicit conversions.
24 // C standard-library functions that aren't cross-platform are provided as
25 // "base::...", and their prototypes are listed below. These functions are
26 // then implemented as inline calls to the platform-specific equivalents in the
27 // platform-specific headers.
29 // Wrapper for vsnprintf that always null-terminates and always returns the
30 // number of characters that would be in an untruncated formatted
31 // string, even when truncation occurs.
32 int vsnprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, va_list arguments
)
35 // Some of these implementations need to be inlined.
37 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
38 // function just so the PRINTF_FORMAT works.
39 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...)
41 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...) {
43 va_start(arguments
, format
);
44 int result
= vsnprintf(buffer
, size
, format
, arguments
);
49 // TODO(mark) http://crbug.com/472900 crashpad shouldn't use base while
50 // being DEPSed in. This backwards-compat hack is provided until crashpad is
53 inline int strcasecmp(const char* s1
, const char* s2
) {
54 return _stricmp(s1
, s2
);
57 inline int strcasecmp(const char* string1
, const char* string2
) {
58 return ::strcasecmp(string1
, string2
);
62 // BSD-style safe and consistent string copy functions.
63 // Copies |src| to |dst|, where |dst_size| is the total allocated size of |dst|.
64 // Copies at most |dst_size|-1 characters, and always NULL terminates |dst|, as
65 // long as |dst_size| is not 0. Returns the length of |src| in characters.
66 // If the return value is >= dst_size, then the output was truncated.
67 // NOTE: All sizes are in number of characters, NOT in bytes.
68 BASE_EXPORT
size_t strlcpy(char* dst
, const char* src
, size_t dst_size
);
69 BASE_EXPORT
size_t wcslcpy(wchar_t* dst
, const wchar_t* src
, size_t dst_size
);
71 // Scan a wprintf format string to determine whether it's portable across a
72 // variety of systems. This function only checks that the conversion
73 // specifiers used by the format string are supported and have the same meaning
74 // on a variety of systems. It doesn't check for other errors that might occur
75 // within a format string.
77 // Nonportable conversion specifiers for wprintf are:
78 // - 's' and 'c' without an 'l' length modifier. %s and %c operate on char
79 // data on all systems except Windows, which treat them as wchar_t data.
80 // Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data instead.
81 // - 'S' and 'C', which operate on wchar_t data on all systems except Windows,
82 // which treat them as char data. Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data
84 // - 'F', which is not identified by Windows wprintf documentation.
85 // - 'D', 'O', and 'U', which are deprecated and not available on all systems.
86 // Use %ld, %lo, and %lu instead.
88 // Note that there is no portable conversion specifier for char data when
89 // working with wprintf.
91 // This function is intended to be called from base::vswprintf.
92 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsWprintfFormatPortable(const wchar_t* format
);
94 // ASCII-specific tolower. The standard library's tolower is locale sensitive,
95 // so we don't want to use it here.
96 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToLowerASCII(Char c
) {
97 return (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'Z') ? (c
+ ('a' - 'A')) : c
;
100 // ASCII-specific toupper. The standard library's toupper is locale sensitive,
101 // so we don't want to use it here.
102 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToUpperASCII(Char c
) {
103 return (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'z') ? (c
+ ('A' - 'a')) : c
;
106 // Functor for case-insensitive ASCII comparisons for STL algorithms like
109 // Note that a full Unicode version of this functor is not possible to write
110 // because case mappings might change the number of characters, depend on
111 // context (combining accents), and require handling UTF-16. If you need
112 // proper Unicode support, use base::i18n::ToLower/FoldCase and then just
113 // use a normal operator== on the result.
114 template<typename Char
> struct CaseInsensitiveCompareASCII
{
116 bool operator()(Char x
, Char y
) const {
117 return ToLowerASCII(x
) == ToLowerASCII(y
);
121 // Like strcasecmp for case-insensitive ASCII characters only. Returns:
125 // (unlike strcasecmp which can return values greater or less than 1/-1). For
126 // full Unicode support, use base::i18n::ToLower or base::i18h::FoldCase
127 // and then just call the normal string operators on the result.
128 BASE_EXPORT
int CompareCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece a
, StringPiece b
);
129 BASE_EXPORT
int CompareCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece16 a
, StringPiece16 b
);
131 // Equality for ASCII case-insensitive comparisons. For full Unicode support,
132 // use base::i18n::ToLower or base::i18h::FoldCase and then compare with either
134 BASE_EXPORT
bool EqualsCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece a
, StringPiece b
);
135 BASE_EXPORT
bool EqualsCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece16 a
, StringPiece16 b
);
137 // These threadsafe functions return references to globally unique empty
140 // It is likely faster to construct a new empty string object (just a few
141 // instructions to set the length to 0) than to get the empty string singleton
142 // returned by these functions (which requires threadsafe singleton access).
144 // Therefore, DO NOT USE THESE AS A GENERAL-PURPOSE SUBSTITUTE FOR DEFAULT
145 // CONSTRUCTORS. There is only one case where you should use these: functions
146 // which need to return a string by reference (e.g. as a class member
147 // accessor), and don't have an empty string to use (e.g. in an error case).
148 // These should not be used as initializers, function arguments, or return
149 // values for functions which return by value or outparam.
150 BASE_EXPORT
const std::string
& EmptyString();
151 BASE_EXPORT
const string16
& EmptyString16();
153 // Contains the set of characters representing whitespace in the corresponding
154 // encoding. Null-terminated. The ASCII versions are the whitespaces as defined
155 // by HTML5, and don't include control characters.
156 BASE_EXPORT
extern const wchar_t kWhitespaceWide
[]; // Includes Unicode.
157 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char16 kWhitespaceUTF16
[]; // Includes Unicode.
158 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kWhitespaceASCII
[];
159 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char16 kWhitespaceASCIIAs16
[]; // No unicode.
161 // Null-terminated string representing the UTF-8 byte order mark.
162 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kUtf8ByteOrderMark
[];
164 // Removes characters in |remove_chars| from anywhere in |input|. Returns true
165 // if any characters were removed. |remove_chars| must be null-terminated.
166 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
167 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const string16
& input
,
168 const StringPiece16
& remove_chars
,
170 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const std::string
& input
,
171 const StringPiece
& remove_chars
,
172 std::string
* output
);
174 // Replaces characters in |replace_chars| from anywhere in |input| with
175 // |replace_with|. Each character in |replace_chars| will be replaced with
176 // the |replace_with| string. Returns true if any characters were replaced.
177 // |replace_chars| must be null-terminated.
178 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
179 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const string16
& input
,
180 const StringPiece16
& replace_chars
,
181 const string16
& replace_with
,
183 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const std::string
& input
,
184 const StringPiece
& replace_chars
,
185 const std::string
& replace_with
,
186 std::string
* output
);
190 TRIM_LEADING
= 1 << 0,
191 TRIM_TRAILING
= 1 << 1,
192 TRIM_ALL
= TRIM_LEADING
| TRIM_TRAILING
,
195 // Removes characters in |trim_chars| from the beginning and end of |input|.
196 // The 8-bit version only works on 8-bit characters, not UTF-8.
198 // It is safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output| (this is
199 // the normal usage to trim in-place).
200 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const string16
& input
,
201 StringPiece16 trim_chars
,
203 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const std::string
& input
,
204 StringPiece trim_chars
,
205 std::string
* output
);
207 // StringPiece versions of the above. The returned pieces refer to the original
209 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece16
TrimString(StringPiece16 input
,
210 const StringPiece16
& trim_chars
,
211 TrimPositions positions
);
212 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece
TrimString(StringPiece input
,
213 const StringPiece
& trim_chars
,
214 TrimPositions positions
);
216 // Truncates a string to the nearest UTF-8 character that will leave
217 // the string less than or equal to the specified byte size.
218 BASE_EXPORT
void TruncateUTF8ToByteSize(const std::string
& input
,
219 const size_t byte_size
,
220 std::string
* output
);
222 // Trims any whitespace from either end of the input string.
224 // The StringPiece versions return a substring referencing the input buffer.
225 // The ASCII versions look only for ASCII whitespace.
227 // The std::string versions return where whitespace was found.
228 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both input and output.
229 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const string16
& input
,
230 TrimPositions positions
,
232 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece16
TrimWhitespace(StringPiece16 input
,
233 TrimPositions positions
);
234 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespaceASCII(const std::string
& input
,
235 TrimPositions positions
,
236 std::string
* output
);
237 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece
TrimWhitespaceASCII(StringPiece input
,
238 TrimPositions positions
);
240 // Deprecated. This function is only for backward compatibility and calls
241 // TrimWhitespaceASCII().
242 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const std::string
& input
,
243 TrimPositions positions
,
244 std::string
* output
);
246 // Searches for CR or LF characters. Removes all contiguous whitespace
247 // strings that contain them. This is useful when trying to deal with text
248 // copied from terminals.
249 // Returns |text|, with the following three transformations:
250 // (1) Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed.
251 // (2) If |trim_sequences_with_line_breaks| is true, any other whitespace
252 // sequences containing a CR or LF are trimmed.
253 // (3) All other whitespace sequences are converted to single spaces.
254 BASE_EXPORT string16
CollapseWhitespace(
255 const string16
& text
,
256 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
257 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
CollapseWhitespaceASCII(
258 const std::string
& text
,
259 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
261 // Returns true if |input| is empty or contains only characters found in
263 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece
& input
,
264 const StringPiece
& characters
);
265 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece16
& input
,
266 const StringPiece16
& characters
);
268 // Returns true if the specified string matches the criteria. How can a wide
269 // string be 8-bit or UTF8? It contains only characters that are < 256 (in the
270 // first case) or characters that use only 8-bits and whose 8-bit
271 // representation looks like a UTF-8 string (the second case).
273 // Note that IsStringUTF8 checks not only if the input is structurally
274 // valid but also if it doesn't contain any non-character codepoint
275 // (e.g. U+FFFE). It's done on purpose because all the existing callers want
276 // to have the maximum 'discriminating' power from other encodings. If
277 // there's a use case for just checking the structural validity, we have to
278 // add a new function for that.
280 // IsStringASCII assumes the input is likely all ASCII, and does not leave early
281 // if it is not the case.
282 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringUTF8(const StringPiece
& str
);
283 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const StringPiece
& str
);
284 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const StringPiece16
& str
);
285 // A convenience adaptor for WebStrings, as they don't convert into
286 // StringPieces directly.
287 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const string16
& str
);
288 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
289 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const std::wstring
& str
);
292 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
293 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
294 template <class str
> inline void StringToLowerASCII(str
* s
) {
295 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
296 *i
= ToLowerASCII(*i
);
299 template <class str
> inline str
StringToLowerASCII(const str
& s
) {
300 // for std::string and std::wstring
302 StringToLowerASCII(&output
);
306 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
307 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
308 template <class str
> inline void StringToUpperASCII(str
* s
) {
309 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
310 *i
= ToUpperASCII(*i
);
313 template <class str
> inline str
StringToUpperASCII(const str
& s
) {
314 // for std::string and std::wstring
316 StringToUpperASCII(&output
);
320 // Compare the lower-case form of the given string against the given ASCII
321 // string. This is useful for doing checking if an input string matches some
322 // token, and it is optimized to avoid intermediate string copies. This API is
323 // borrowed from the equivalent APIs in Mozilla.
324 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const std::string
& a
, const char* b
);
325 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const string16
& a
, const char* b
);
327 // Same thing, but with string iterators instead.
328 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(std::string::const_iterator a_begin
,
329 std::string::const_iterator a_end
,
331 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(string16::const_iterator a_begin
,
332 string16::const_iterator a_end
,
334 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char* a_begin
,
337 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char* a_begin
,
341 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char16
* a_begin
,
345 // Performs a case-sensitive string compare. The behavior is undefined if both
346 // strings are not ASCII.
347 BASE_EXPORT
bool EqualsASCII(const string16
& a
, const StringPiece
& b
);
349 // Indicates case sensitivity of comparisons. Only ASCII case insensitivity
350 // is supported. Full Unicode case-insensitive conversions would need to go in
351 // base/i18n so it can use ICU.
353 // If you need to do Unicode-aware case-insensitive StartsWith/EndsWith, it's
354 // best to call base::i18n::ToLower() or base::i18n::FoldCase() (see
355 // base/i18n/case_conversion.h for usage advice) on the arguments, and then use
356 // the results to a case-sensitive comparison.
357 enum class CompareCase
{
362 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWith(StringPiece str
,
363 StringPiece search_for
,
364 CompareCase case_sensitivity
);
365 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWith(StringPiece16 str
,
366 StringPiece16 search_for
,
367 CompareCase case_sensitivity
);
368 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(StringPiece str
,
369 StringPiece search_for
,
370 CompareCase case_sensitivity
);
371 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(StringPiece16 str
,
372 StringPiece16 search_for
,
373 CompareCase case_sensitivity
);
375 // Determines the type of ASCII character, independent of locale (the C
376 // library versions will change based on locale).
377 template <typename Char
>
378 inline bool IsAsciiWhitespace(Char c
) {
379 return c
== ' ' || c
== '\r' || c
== '\n' || c
== '\t';
381 template <typename Char
>
382 inline bool IsAsciiAlpha(Char c
) {
383 return ((c
>= 'A') && (c
<= 'Z')) || ((c
>= 'a') && (c
<= 'z'));
385 template <typename Char
>
386 inline bool IsAsciiDigit(Char c
) {
387 return c
>= '0' && c
<= '9';
390 template <typename Char
>
391 inline bool IsHexDigit(Char c
) {
392 return (c
>= '0' && c
<= '9') ||
393 (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'F') ||
394 (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'f');
397 // Returns the integer corresponding to the given hex character. For example:
401 // Assumes the input is a valid hex character. DCHECKs in debug builds if not.
402 BASE_EXPORT
char HexDigitToInt(wchar_t c
);
404 // Returns true if it's a Unicode whitespace character.
405 inline bool IsUnicodeWhitespace(wchar_t c
) {
406 return wcschr(base::kWhitespaceWide
, c
) != NULL
;
409 // Return a byte string in human-readable format with a unit suffix. Not
410 // appropriate for use in any UI; use of FormatBytes and friends in ui/base is
411 // highly recommended instead. TODO(avi): Figure out how to get callers to use
412 // FormatBytes instead; remove this.
413 BASE_EXPORT string16
FormatBytesUnlocalized(int64 bytes
);
415 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), replace the first instance of
416 // |find_this| with |replace_with|.
417 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
420 StringPiece16 find_this
,
421 StringPiece16 replace_with
);
422 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
425 StringPiece find_this
,
426 StringPiece replace_with
);
428 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), look through |str| and replace all
429 // instances of |find_this| with |replace_with|.
431 // This does entire substrings; use std::replace in <algorithm> for single
432 // characters, for example:
433 // std::replace(str.begin(), str.end(), 'a', 'b');
434 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
437 StringPiece16 find_this
,
438 StringPiece16 replace_with
);
439 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
442 StringPiece find_this
,
443 StringPiece replace_with
);
445 // Reserves enough memory in |str| to accommodate |length_with_null| characters,
446 // sets the size of |str| to |length_with_null - 1| characters, and returns a
447 // pointer to the underlying contiguous array of characters. This is typically
448 // used when calling a function that writes results into a character array, but
449 // the caller wants the data to be managed by a string-like object. It is
450 // convenient in that is can be used inline in the call, and fast in that it
451 // avoids copying the results of the call from a char* into a string.
453 // |length_with_null| must be at least 2, since otherwise the underlying string
454 // would have size 0, and trying to access &((*str)[0]) in that case can result
455 // in a number of problems.
457 // Internally, this takes linear time because the resize() call 0-fills the
458 // underlying array for potentially all
459 // (|length_with_null - 1| * sizeof(string_type::value_type)) bytes. Ideally we
460 // could avoid this aspect of the resize() call, as we expect the caller to
461 // immediately write over this memory, but there is no other way to set the size
462 // of the string, and not doing that will mean people who access |str| rather
463 // than str.c_str() will get back a string of whatever size |str| had on entry
464 // to this function (probably 0).
465 BASE_EXPORT
char* WriteInto(std::string
* str
, size_t length_with_null
);
466 BASE_EXPORT char16
* WriteInto(string16
* str
, size_t length_with_null
);
468 BASE_EXPORT
wchar_t* WriteInto(std::wstring
* str
, size_t length_with_null
);
471 // Does the opposite of SplitString().
472 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
JoinString(const std::vector
<std::string
>& parts
,
473 StringPiece separator
);
474 BASE_EXPORT string16
JoinString(const std::vector
<string16
>& parts
,
475 StringPiece16 separator
);
477 // Replace $1-$2-$3..$9 in the format string with |a|-|b|-|c|..|i| respectively.
478 // Additionally, any number of consecutive '$' characters is replaced by that
479 // number less one. Eg $$->$, $$$->$$, etc. The offsets parameter here can be
480 // NULL. This only allows you to use up to nine replacements.
481 BASE_EXPORT string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
482 const string16
& format_string
,
483 const std::vector
<string16
>& subst
,
484 std::vector
<size_t>* offsets
);
486 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
487 const StringPiece
& format_string
,
488 const std::vector
<std::string
>& subst
,
489 std::vector
<size_t>* offsets
);
491 // Single-string shortcut for ReplaceStringHolders. |offset| may be NULL.
492 BASE_EXPORT string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(const string16
& format_string
,
499 #include "base/strings/string_util_win.h"
500 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
501 #include "base/strings/string_util_posix.h"
503 #error Define string operations appropriately for your platform
506 #endif // BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_