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.
22 // Safe standard library wrappers for all platforms.
26 // C standard-library functions like "strncasecmp" and "snprintf" that aren't
27 // cross-platform are provided as "base::strncasecmp", and their prototypes
28 // are listed below. These functions are then implemented as inline calls
29 // to the platform-specific equivalents in the platform-specific headers.
31 // Compares the two strings s1 and s2 without regard to case using
32 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
33 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
34 int strcasecmp(const char* s1
, const char* s2
);
36 // Compares up to count characters of s1 and s2 without regard to case using
37 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
38 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
39 int strncasecmp(const char* s1
, const char* s2
, size_t count
);
41 // Same as strncmp but for char16 strings.
42 int strncmp16(const char16
* s1
, const char16
* s2
, size_t count
);
44 // Wrapper for vsnprintf that always null-terminates and always returns the
45 // number of characters that would be in an untruncated formatted
46 // string, even when truncation occurs.
47 int vsnprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, va_list arguments
)
50 // Some of these implementations need to be inlined.
52 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
53 // function just so the PRINTF_FORMAT works.
54 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...)
56 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...) {
58 va_start(arguments
, format
);
59 int result
= vsnprintf(buffer
, size
, format
, arguments
);
64 // BSD-style safe and consistent string copy functions.
65 // Copies |src| to |dst|, where |dst_size| is the total allocated size of |dst|.
66 // Copies at most |dst_size|-1 characters, and always NULL terminates |dst|, as
67 // long as |dst_size| is not 0. Returns the length of |src| in characters.
68 // If the return value is >= dst_size, then the output was truncated.
69 // NOTE: All sizes are in number of characters, NOT in bytes.
70 BASE_EXPORT
size_t strlcpy(char* dst
, const char* src
, size_t dst_size
);
71 BASE_EXPORT
size_t wcslcpy(wchar_t* dst
, const wchar_t* src
, size_t dst_size
);
73 // Scan a wprintf format string to determine whether it's portable across a
74 // variety of systems. This function only checks that the conversion
75 // specifiers used by the format string are supported and have the same meaning
76 // on a variety of systems. It doesn't check for other errors that might occur
77 // within a format string.
79 // Nonportable conversion specifiers for wprintf are:
80 // - 's' and 'c' without an 'l' length modifier. %s and %c operate on char
81 // data on all systems except Windows, which treat them as wchar_t data.
82 // Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data instead.
83 // - 'S' and 'C', which operate on wchar_t data on all systems except Windows,
84 // which treat them as char data. Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data
86 // - 'F', which is not identified by Windows wprintf documentation.
87 // - 'D', 'O', and 'U', which are deprecated and not available on all systems.
88 // Use %ld, %lo, and %lu instead.
90 // Note that there is no portable conversion specifier for char data when
91 // working with wprintf.
93 // This function is intended to be called from base::vswprintf.
94 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsWprintfFormatPortable(const wchar_t* format
);
96 // ASCII-specific tolower. The standard library's tolower is locale sensitive,
97 // so we don't want to use it here.
98 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToLowerASCII(Char c
) {
99 return (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'Z') ? (c
+ ('a' - 'A')) : c
;
102 // ASCII-specific toupper. The standard library's toupper is locale sensitive,
103 // so we don't want to use it here.
104 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToUpperASCII(Char c
) {
105 return (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'z') ? (c
+ ('A' - 'a')) : c
;
108 // Function objects to aid in comparing/searching strings.
110 template<typename Char
> struct CaseInsensitiveCompare
{
112 bool operator()(Char x
, Char y
) const {
113 // TODO(darin): Do we really want to do locale sensitive comparisons here?
114 // See http://crbug.com/24917
115 return tolower(x
) == tolower(y
);
119 template<typename Char
> struct CaseInsensitiveCompareASCII
{
121 bool operator()(Char x
, Char y
) const {
122 return ToLowerASCII(x
) == ToLowerASCII(y
);
126 // These threadsafe functions return references to globally unique empty
129 // It is likely faster to construct a new empty string object (just a few
130 // instructions to set the length to 0) than to get the empty string singleton
131 // returned by these functions (which requires threadsafe singleton access).
133 // Therefore, DO NOT USE THESE AS A GENERAL-PURPOSE SUBSTITUTE FOR DEFAULT
134 // CONSTRUCTORS. There is only one case where you should use these: functions
135 // which need to return a string by reference (e.g. as a class member
136 // accessor), and don't have an empty string to use (e.g. in an error case).
137 // These should not be used as initializers, function arguments, or return
138 // values for functions which return by value or outparam.
139 BASE_EXPORT
const std::string
& EmptyString();
140 BASE_EXPORT
const string16
& EmptyString16();
142 // Contains the set of characters representing whitespace in the corresponding
143 // encoding. Null-terminated.
144 BASE_EXPORT
extern const wchar_t kWhitespaceWide
[];
145 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char16 kWhitespaceUTF16
[];
146 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kWhitespaceASCII
[];
148 // Null-terminated string representing the UTF-8 byte order mark.
149 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kUtf8ByteOrderMark
[];
151 // Removes characters in |remove_chars| from anywhere in |input|. Returns true
152 // if any characters were removed. |remove_chars| must be null-terminated.
153 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
154 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const string16
& input
,
155 const char16 remove_chars
[],
157 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const std::string
& input
,
158 const char remove_chars
[],
159 std::string
* output
);
161 // Replaces characters in |replace_chars| from anywhere in |input| with
162 // |replace_with|. Each character in |replace_chars| will be replaced with
163 // the |replace_with| string. Returns true if any characters were replaced.
164 // |replace_chars| must be null-terminated.
165 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
166 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const string16
& input
,
167 const char16 replace_chars
[],
168 const string16
& replace_with
,
170 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const std::string
& input
,
171 const char replace_chars
[],
172 const std::string
& replace_with
,
173 std::string
* output
);
175 // Removes characters in |trim_chars| from the beginning and end of |input|.
176 // |trim_chars| must be null-terminated.
177 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
178 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const string16
& input
,
179 const char16 trim_chars
[],
181 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const std::string
& input
,
182 const char trim_chars
[],
183 std::string
* output
);
185 // Truncates a string to the nearest UTF-8 character that will leave
186 // the string less than or equal to the specified byte size.
187 BASE_EXPORT
void TruncateUTF8ToByteSize(const std::string
& input
,
188 const size_t byte_size
,
189 std::string
* output
);
194 #include "base/strings/string_util_win.h"
195 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
196 #include "base/strings/string_util_posix.h"
198 #error Define string operations appropriately for your platform
201 // Trims any whitespace from either end of the input string. Returns where
202 // whitespace was found.
203 // The non-wide version has two functions:
204 // * TrimWhitespaceASCII()
205 // This function is for ASCII strings and only looks for ASCII whitespace;
206 // Please choose the best one according to your usage.
207 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both input and output.
210 TRIM_LEADING
= 1 << 0,
211 TRIM_TRAILING
= 1 << 1,
212 TRIM_ALL
= TRIM_LEADING
| TRIM_TRAILING
,
214 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const base::string16
& input
,
215 TrimPositions positions
,
216 base::string16
* output
);
217 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespaceASCII(const std::string
& input
,
218 TrimPositions positions
,
219 std::string
* output
);
221 // Deprecated. This function is only for backward compatibility and calls
222 // TrimWhitespaceASCII().
223 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const std::string
& input
,
224 TrimPositions positions
,
225 std::string
* output
);
227 // Searches for CR or LF characters. Removes all contiguous whitespace
228 // strings that contain them. This is useful when trying to deal with text
229 // copied from terminals.
230 // Returns |text|, with the following three transformations:
231 // (1) Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed.
232 // (2) If |trim_sequences_with_line_breaks| is true, any other whitespace
233 // sequences containing a CR or LF are trimmed.
234 // (3) All other whitespace sequences are converted to single spaces.
235 BASE_EXPORT
base::string16
CollapseWhitespace(
236 const base::string16
& text
,
237 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
238 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
CollapseWhitespaceASCII(
239 const std::string
& text
,
240 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
242 // Returns true if the passed string is empty or contains only white-space
244 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyWhitespaceASCII(const std::string
& str
);
245 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyWhitespace(const base::string16
& str
);
247 // Returns true if |input| is empty or contains only characters found in
249 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const base::string16
& input
,
250 const base::string16
& characters
);
251 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const std::string
& input
,
252 const std::string
& characters
);
254 // Converts to 7-bit ASCII by truncating. The result must be known to be ASCII
256 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
WideToASCII(const std::wstring
& wide
);
257 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
UTF16ToASCII(const base::string16
& utf16
);
259 // Returns true if the specified string matches the criteria. How can a wide
260 // string be 8-bit or UTF8? It contains only characters that are < 256 (in the
261 // first case) or characters that use only 8-bits and whose 8-bit
262 // representation looks like a UTF-8 string (the second case).
264 // Note that IsStringUTF8 checks not only if the input is structurally
265 // valid but also if it doesn't contain any non-character codepoint
266 // (e.g. U+FFFE). It's done on purpose because all the existing callers want
267 // to have the maximum 'discriminating' power from other encodings. If
268 // there's a use case for just checking the structural validity, we have to
269 // add a new function for that.
270 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringUTF8(const std::string
& str
);
271 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const base::StringPiece
& str
);
272 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const base::string16
& str
);
274 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
275 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
276 template <class str
> inline void StringToLowerASCII(str
* s
) {
277 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
278 *i
= base::ToLowerASCII(*i
);
281 template <class str
> inline str
StringToLowerASCII(const str
& s
) {
282 // for std::string and std::wstring
284 StringToLowerASCII(&output
);
288 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
289 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
290 template <class str
> inline void StringToUpperASCII(str
* s
) {
291 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
292 *i
= base::ToUpperASCII(*i
);
295 template <class str
> inline str
StringToUpperASCII(const str
& s
) {
296 // for std::string and std::wstring
298 StringToUpperASCII(&output
);
302 // Compare the lower-case form of the given string against the given ASCII
303 // string. This is useful for doing checking if an input string matches some
304 // token, and it is optimized to avoid intermediate string copies. This API is
305 // borrowed from the equivalent APIs in Mozilla.
306 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const std::string
& a
, const char* b
);
307 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const base::string16
& a
, const char* b
);
309 // Same thing, but with string iterators instead.
310 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(std::string::const_iterator a_begin
,
311 std::string::const_iterator a_end
,
313 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(base::string16::const_iterator a_begin
,
314 base::string16::const_iterator a_end
,
316 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char* a_begin
,
319 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const base::char16
* a_begin
,
320 const base::char16
* a_end
,
323 // Performs a case-sensitive string compare. The behavior is undefined if both
324 // strings are not ASCII.
325 BASE_EXPORT
bool EqualsASCII(const base::string16
& a
, const base::StringPiece
& b
);
327 // Returns true if str starts with search, or false otherwise.
328 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWithASCII(const std::string
& str
,
329 const std::string
& search
,
330 bool case_sensitive
);
331 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWith(const base::string16
& str
,
332 const base::string16
& search
,
333 bool case_sensitive
);
335 // Returns true if str ends with search, or false otherwise.
336 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(const std::string
& str
,
337 const std::string
& search
,
338 bool case_sensitive
);
339 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(const base::string16
& str
,
340 const base::string16
& search
,
341 bool case_sensitive
);
344 // Determines the type of ASCII character, independent of locale (the C
345 // library versions will change based on locale).
346 template <typename Char
>
347 inline bool IsAsciiWhitespace(Char c
) {
348 return c
== ' ' || c
== '\r' || c
== '\n' || c
== '\t';
350 template <typename Char
>
351 inline bool IsAsciiAlpha(Char c
) {
352 return ((c
>= 'A') && (c
<= 'Z')) || ((c
>= 'a') && (c
<= 'z'));
354 template <typename Char
>
355 inline bool IsAsciiDigit(Char c
) {
356 return c
>= '0' && c
<= '9';
359 template <typename Char
>
360 inline bool IsHexDigit(Char c
) {
361 return (c
>= '0' && c
<= '9') ||
362 (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'F') ||
363 (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'f');
366 template <typename Char
>
367 inline Char
HexDigitToInt(Char c
) {
368 DCHECK(IsHexDigit(c
));
369 if (c
>= '0' && c
<= '9')
371 if (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'F')
373 if (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'f')
378 // Returns true if it's a whitespace character.
379 inline bool IsWhitespace(wchar_t c
) {
380 return wcschr(base::kWhitespaceWide
, c
) != NULL
;
383 // Return a byte string in human-readable format with a unit suffix. Not
384 // appropriate for use in any UI; use of FormatBytes and friends in ui/base is
385 // highly recommended instead. TODO(avi): Figure out how to get callers to use
386 // FormatBytes instead; remove this.
387 BASE_EXPORT
base::string16
FormatBytesUnlocalized(int64 bytes
);
389 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), replace the first instance of
390 // |find_this| with |replace_with|.
391 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
393 base::string16::size_type start_offset
,
394 const base::string16
& find_this
,
395 const base::string16
& replace_with
);
396 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
398 std::string::size_type start_offset
,
399 const std::string
& find_this
,
400 const std::string
& replace_with
);
402 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), look through |str| and replace all
403 // instances of |find_this| with |replace_with|.
405 // This does entire substrings; use std::replace in <algorithm> for single
406 // characters, for example:
407 // std::replace(str.begin(), str.end(), 'a', 'b');
408 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
410 base::string16::size_type start_offset
,
411 const base::string16
& find_this
,
412 const base::string16
& replace_with
);
413 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
415 std::string::size_type start_offset
,
416 const std::string
& find_this
,
417 const std::string
& replace_with
);
419 // Reserves enough memory in |str| to accommodate |length_with_null| characters,
420 // sets the size of |str| to |length_with_null - 1| characters, and returns a
421 // pointer to the underlying contiguous array of characters. This is typically
422 // used when calling a function that writes results into a character array, but
423 // the caller wants the data to be managed by a string-like object. It is
424 // convenient in that is can be used inline in the call, and fast in that it
425 // avoids copying the results of the call from a char* into a string.
427 // |length_with_null| must be at least 2, since otherwise the underlying string
428 // would have size 0, and trying to access &((*str)[0]) in that case can result
429 // in a number of problems.
431 // Internally, this takes linear time because the resize() call 0-fills the
432 // underlying array for potentially all
433 // (|length_with_null - 1| * sizeof(string_type::value_type)) bytes. Ideally we
434 // could avoid this aspect of the resize() call, as we expect the caller to
435 // immediately write over this memory, but there is no other way to set the size
436 // of the string, and not doing that will mean people who access |str| rather
437 // than str.c_str() will get back a string of whatever size |str| had on entry
438 // to this function (probably 0).
439 template <class string_type
>
440 inline typename
string_type::value_type
* WriteInto(string_type
* str
,
441 size_t length_with_null
) {
442 DCHECK_GT(length_with_null
, 1u);
443 str
->reserve(length_with_null
);
444 str
->resize(length_with_null
- 1);
448 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
450 // Splits a string into its fields delimited by any of the characters in
451 // |delimiters|. Each field is added to the |tokens| vector. Returns the
452 // number of tokens found.
453 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const base::string16
& str
,
454 const base::string16
& delimiters
,
455 std::vector
<base::string16
>* tokens
);
456 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const std::string
& str
,
457 const std::string
& delimiters
,
458 std::vector
<std::string
>* tokens
);
459 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const base::StringPiece
& str
,
460 const base::StringPiece
& delimiters
,
461 std::vector
<base::StringPiece
>* tokens
);
463 // Does the opposite of SplitString().
464 BASE_EXPORT
base::string16
JoinString(const std::vector
<base::string16
>& parts
,
466 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
JoinString(
467 const std::vector
<std::string
>& parts
, char s
);
469 // Join |parts| using |separator|.
470 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
JoinString(
471 const std::vector
<std::string
>& parts
,
472 const std::string
& separator
);
473 BASE_EXPORT
base::string16
JoinString(
474 const std::vector
<base::string16
>& parts
,
475 const base::string16
& 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
base::string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
482 const base::string16
& format_string
,
483 const std::vector
<base::string16
>& subst
,
484 std::vector
<size_t>* offsets
);
486 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
487 const base::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
base::string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
493 const base::string16
& format_string
,
494 const base::string16
& a
,
497 // Returns true if the string passed in matches the pattern. The pattern
498 // string can contain wildcards like * and ?
499 // The backslash character (\) is an escape character for * and ?
500 // We limit the patterns to having a max of 16 * or ? characters.
501 // ? matches 0 or 1 character, while * matches 0 or more characters.
502 BASE_EXPORT
bool MatchPattern(const base::StringPiece
& string
,
503 const base::StringPiece
& pattern
);
504 BASE_EXPORT
bool MatchPattern(const base::string16
& string
,
505 const base::string16
& pattern
);
507 // Hack to convert any char-like type to its unsigned counterpart.
508 // For example, it will convert char, signed char and unsigned char to unsigned
516 struct ToUnsigned
<char> {
517 typedef unsigned char Unsigned
;
520 struct ToUnsigned
<signed char> {
521 typedef unsigned char Unsigned
;
524 struct ToUnsigned
<wchar_t> {
525 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF16)
526 typedef unsigned short Unsigned
;
527 #elif defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
528 typedef uint32 Unsigned
;
532 struct ToUnsigned
<short> {
533 typedef unsigned short Unsigned
;
536 #endif // BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_