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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.
4 //
5 // This file defines utility functions for working with strings.
7 #ifndef BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
8 #define BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
10 #include <ctype.h>
11 #include <stdarg.h> // va_list
13 #include <string>
14 #include <vector>
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 namespace base {
24 // C standard-library functions like "strncasecmp" and "snprintf" that aren't
25 // cross-platform are provided as "base::strncasecmp", and their prototypes
26 // are listed below. These functions are then implemented as inline calls
27 // to the platform-specific equivalents in the platform-specific headers.
29 // Compares the two strings s1 and s2 without regard to case using
30 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
31 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
32 int strcasecmp(const char* s1, const char* s2);
34 // Compares up to count characters of s1 and s2 without regard to case using
35 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
36 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
37 int strncasecmp(const char* s1, const char* s2, size_t count);
39 // Same as strncmp but for char16 strings.
40 int strncmp16(const char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t count);
42 // Wrapper for vsnprintf that always null-terminates and always returns the
43 // number of characters that would be in an untruncated formatted
44 // string, even when truncation occurs.
45 int vsnprintf(char* buffer, size_t size, const char* format, va_list arguments)
46 PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 0);
48 // Some of these implementations need to be inlined.
50 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
51 // function just so the PRINTF_FORMAT works.
52 inline int snprintf(char* buffer, size_t size, const char* format, ...)
53 PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4);
54 inline int snprintf(char* buffer, size_t size, const char* format, ...) {
55 va_list arguments;
56 va_start(arguments, format);
57 int result = vsnprintf(buffer, size, format, arguments);
58 va_end(arguments);
59 return result;
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
83 // instead.
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 // Function objects to aid in comparing/searching strings.
108 template<typename Char> struct CaseInsensitiveCompare {
109 public:
110 bool operator()(Char x, Char y) const {
111 // TODO(darin): Do we really want to do locale sensitive comparisons here?
112 // See http://crbug.com/24917
113 return tolower(x) == tolower(y);
117 template<typename Char> struct CaseInsensitiveCompareASCII {
118 public:
119 bool operator()(Char x, Char y) const {
120 return ToLowerASCII(x) == ToLowerASCII(y);
124 // These threadsafe functions return references to globally unique empty
125 // strings.
127 // It is likely faster to construct a new empty string object (just a few
128 // instructions to set the length to 0) than to get the empty string singleton
129 // returned by these functions (which requires threadsafe singleton access).
131 // Therefore, DO NOT USE THESE AS A GENERAL-PURPOSE SUBSTITUTE FOR DEFAULT
132 // CONSTRUCTORS. There is only one case where you should use these: functions
133 // which need to return a string by reference (e.g. as a class member
134 // accessor), and don't have an empty string to use (e.g. in an error case).
135 // These should not be used as initializers, function arguments, or return
136 // values for functions which return by value or outparam.
137 BASE_EXPORT const std::string& EmptyString();
138 BASE_EXPORT const string16& EmptyString16();
140 // Contains the set of characters representing whitespace in the corresponding
141 // encoding. Null-terminated.
142 BASE_EXPORT extern const wchar_t kWhitespaceWide[];
143 BASE_EXPORT extern const char16 kWhitespaceUTF16[];
144 BASE_EXPORT extern const char kWhitespaceASCII[];
146 // Null-terminated string representing the UTF-8 byte order mark.
147 BASE_EXPORT extern const char kUtf8ByteOrderMark[];
149 // Removes characters in |remove_chars| from anywhere in |input|. Returns true
150 // if any characters were removed. |remove_chars| must be null-terminated.
151 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
152 BASE_EXPORT bool RemoveChars(const string16& input,
153 const base::StringPiece16& remove_chars,
154 string16* output);
155 BASE_EXPORT bool RemoveChars(const std::string& input,
156 const base::StringPiece& remove_chars,
157 std::string* output);
159 // Replaces characters in |replace_chars| from anywhere in |input| with
160 // |replace_with|. Each character in |replace_chars| will be replaced with
161 // the |replace_with| string. Returns true if any characters were replaced.
162 // |replace_chars| must be null-terminated.
163 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
164 BASE_EXPORT bool ReplaceChars(const string16& input,
165 const base::StringPiece16& replace_chars,
166 const string16& replace_with,
167 string16* output);
168 BASE_EXPORT bool ReplaceChars(const std::string& input,
169 const base::StringPiece& replace_chars,
170 const std::string& replace_with,
171 std::string* output);
173 // Removes characters in |trim_chars| from the beginning and end of |input|.
174 // |trim_chars| must be null-terminated.
175 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
176 BASE_EXPORT bool TrimString(const string16& input,
177 const base::StringPiece16& trim_chars,
178 string16* output);
179 BASE_EXPORT bool TrimString(const std::string& input,
180 const base::StringPiece& trim_chars,
181 std::string* output);
183 // Truncates a string to the nearest UTF-8 character that will leave
184 // the string less than or equal to the specified byte size.
185 BASE_EXPORT void TruncateUTF8ToByteSize(const std::string& input,
186 const size_t byte_size,
187 std::string* output);
189 // Trims any whitespace from either end of the input string. Returns where
190 // whitespace was found.
191 // The non-wide version has two functions:
192 // * TrimWhitespaceASCII()
193 // This function is for ASCII strings and only looks for ASCII whitespace;
194 // Please choose the best one according to your usage.
195 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both input and output.
196 enum TrimPositions {
197 TRIM_NONE = 0,
198 TRIM_LEADING = 1 << 0,
199 TRIM_TRAILING = 1 << 1,
200 TRIM_ALL = TRIM_LEADING | TRIM_TRAILING,
202 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions TrimWhitespace(const string16& input,
203 TrimPositions positions,
204 base::string16* output);
205 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions TrimWhitespaceASCII(const std::string& input,
206 TrimPositions positions,
207 std::string* output);
209 // Deprecated. This function is only for backward compatibility and calls
210 // TrimWhitespaceASCII().
211 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions TrimWhitespace(const std::string& input,
212 TrimPositions positions,
213 std::string* output);
215 // Searches for CR or LF characters. Removes all contiguous whitespace
216 // strings that contain them. This is useful when trying to deal with text
217 // copied from terminals.
218 // Returns |text|, with the following three transformations:
219 // (1) Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed.
220 // (2) If |trim_sequences_with_line_breaks| is true, any other whitespace
221 // sequences containing a CR or LF are trimmed.
222 // (3) All other whitespace sequences are converted to single spaces.
223 BASE_EXPORT string16 CollapseWhitespace(
224 const string16& text,
225 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks);
226 BASE_EXPORT std::string CollapseWhitespaceASCII(
227 const std::string& text,
228 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks);
230 // Returns true if |input| is empty or contains only characters found in
231 // |characters|.
232 BASE_EXPORT bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece& input,
233 const StringPiece& characters);
234 BASE_EXPORT bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece16& input,
235 const StringPiece16& characters);
237 // Returns true if the specified string matches the criteria. How can a wide
238 // string be 8-bit or UTF8? It contains only characters that are < 256 (in the
239 // first case) or characters that use only 8-bits and whose 8-bit
240 // representation looks like a UTF-8 string (the second case).
242 // Note that IsStringUTF8 checks not only if the input is structurally
243 // valid but also if it doesn't contain any non-character codepoint
244 // (e.g. U+FFFE). It's done on purpose because all the existing callers want
245 // to have the maximum 'discriminating' power from other encodings. If
246 // there's a use case for just checking the structural validity, we have to
247 // add a new function for that.
248 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringUTF8(const std::string& str);
249 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const StringPiece& str);
250 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const string16& str);
252 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
253 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
254 template <class str> inline void StringToLowerASCII(str* s) {
255 for (typename str::iterator i = s->begin(); i != s->end(); ++i)
256 *i = ToLowerASCII(*i);
259 template <class str> inline str StringToLowerASCII(const str& s) {
260 // for std::string and std::wstring
261 str output(s);
262 StringToLowerASCII(&output);
263 return output;
266 } // namespace base
268 #if defined(OS_WIN)
269 #include "base/strings/string_util_win.h"
270 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
271 #include "base/strings/string_util_posix.h"
272 #else
273 #error Define string operations appropriately for your platform
274 #endif
276 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
277 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
278 template <class str> inline void StringToUpperASCII(str* s) {
279 for (typename str::iterator i = s->begin(); i != s->end(); ++i)
280 *i = base::ToUpperASCII(*i);
283 template <class str> inline str StringToUpperASCII(const str& s) {
284 // for std::string and std::wstring
285 str output(s);
286 StringToUpperASCII(&output);
287 return output;
290 // Compare the lower-case form of the given string against the given ASCII
291 // string. This is useful for doing checking if an input string matches some
292 // token, and it is optimized to avoid intermediate string copies. This API is
293 // borrowed from the equivalent APIs in Mozilla.
294 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const std::string& a, const char* b);
295 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const base::string16& a, const char* b);
297 // Same thing, but with string iterators instead.
298 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(std::string::const_iterator a_begin,
299 std::string::const_iterator a_end,
300 const char* b);
301 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(base::string16::const_iterator a_begin,
302 base::string16::const_iterator a_end,
303 const char* b);
304 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char* a_begin,
305 const char* a_end,
306 const char* b);
307 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const base::char16* a_begin,
308 const base::char16* a_end,
309 const char* b);
311 // Performs a case-sensitive string compare. The behavior is undefined if both
312 // strings are not ASCII.
313 BASE_EXPORT bool EqualsASCII(const base::string16& a, const base::StringPiece& b);
315 // Returns true if str starts with search, or false otherwise.
316 BASE_EXPORT bool StartsWithASCII(const std::string& str,
317 const std::string& search,
318 bool case_sensitive);
319 BASE_EXPORT bool StartsWith(const base::string16& str,
320 const base::string16& search,
321 bool case_sensitive);
323 // Returns true if str ends with search, or false otherwise.
324 BASE_EXPORT bool EndsWith(const std::string& str,
325 const std::string& search,
326 bool case_sensitive);
327 BASE_EXPORT bool EndsWith(const base::string16& str,
328 const base::string16& search,
329 bool case_sensitive);
332 // Determines the type of ASCII character, independent of locale (the C
333 // library versions will change based on locale).
334 template <typename Char>
335 inline bool IsAsciiWhitespace(Char c) {
336 return c == ' ' || c == '\r' || c == '\n' || c == '\t';
338 template <typename Char>
339 inline bool IsAsciiAlpha(Char c) {
340 return ((c >= 'A') && (c <= 'Z')) || ((c >= 'a') && (c <= 'z'));
342 template <typename Char>
343 inline bool IsAsciiDigit(Char c) {
344 return c >= '0' && c <= '9';
347 template <typename Char>
348 inline bool IsHexDigit(Char c) {
349 return (c >= '0' && c <= '9') ||
350 (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') ||
351 (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f');
354 template <typename Char>
355 inline Char HexDigitToInt(Char c) {
356 DCHECK(IsHexDigit(c));
357 if (c >= '0' && c <= '9')
358 return c - '0';
359 if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F')
360 return c - 'A' + 10;
361 if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f')
362 return c - 'a' + 10;
363 return 0;
366 // Returns true if it's a whitespace character.
367 inline bool IsWhitespace(wchar_t c) {
368 return wcschr(base::kWhitespaceWide, c) != NULL;
371 // Return a byte string in human-readable format with a unit suffix. Not
372 // appropriate for use in any UI; use of FormatBytes and friends in ui/base is
373 // highly recommended instead. TODO(avi): Figure out how to get callers to use
374 // FormatBytes instead; remove this.
375 BASE_EXPORT base::string16 FormatBytesUnlocalized(int64 bytes);
377 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), replace the first instance of
378 // |find_this| with |replace_with|.
379 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
380 base::string16* str,
381 size_t start_offset,
382 const base::string16& find_this,
383 const base::string16& replace_with);
384 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
385 std::string* str,
386 size_t start_offset,
387 const std::string& find_this,
388 const std::string& replace_with);
390 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), look through |str| and replace all
391 // instances of |find_this| with |replace_with|.
393 // This does entire substrings; use std::replace in <algorithm> for single
394 // characters, for example:
395 // std::replace(str.begin(), str.end(), 'a', 'b');
396 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
397 base::string16* str,
398 size_t start_offset,
399 const base::string16& find_this,
400 const base::string16& replace_with);
401 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(std::string* str,
402 size_t start_offset,
403 const std::string& find_this,
404 const std::string& replace_with);
406 // Reserves enough memory in |str| to accommodate |length_with_null| characters,
407 // sets the size of |str| to |length_with_null - 1| characters, and returns a
408 // pointer to the underlying contiguous array of characters. This is typically
409 // used when calling a function that writes results into a character array, but
410 // the caller wants the data to be managed by a string-like object. It is
411 // convenient in that is can be used inline in the call, and fast in that it
412 // avoids copying the results of the call from a char* into a string.
414 // |length_with_null| must be at least 2, since otherwise the underlying string
415 // would have size 0, and trying to access &((*str)[0]) in that case can result
416 // in a number of problems.
418 // Internally, this takes linear time because the resize() call 0-fills the
419 // underlying array for potentially all
420 // (|length_with_null - 1| * sizeof(string_type::value_type)) bytes. Ideally we
421 // could avoid this aspect of the resize() call, as we expect the caller to
422 // immediately write over this memory, but there is no other way to set the size
423 // of the string, and not doing that will mean people who access |str| rather
424 // than str.c_str() will get back a string of whatever size |str| had on entry
425 // to this function (probably 0).
426 template <class string_type>
427 inline typename string_type::value_type* WriteInto(string_type* str,
428 size_t length_with_null) {
429 DCHECK_GT(length_with_null, 1u);
430 str->reserve(length_with_null);
431 str->resize(length_with_null - 1);
432 return &((*str)[0]);
435 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
437 // Splits a string into its fields delimited by any of the characters in
438 // |delimiters|. Each field is added to the |tokens| vector. Returns the
439 // number of tokens found.
440 BASE_EXPORT size_t Tokenize(const base::string16& str,
441 const base::string16& delimiters,
442 std::vector<base::string16>* tokens);
443 BASE_EXPORT size_t Tokenize(const std::string& str,
444 const std::string& delimiters,
445 std::vector<std::string>* tokens);
446 BASE_EXPORT size_t Tokenize(const base::StringPiece& str,
447 const base::StringPiece& delimiters,
448 std::vector<base::StringPiece>* tokens);
450 // Does the opposite of SplitString().
451 BASE_EXPORT base::string16 JoinString(const std::vector<base::string16>& parts,
452 base::char16 s);
453 BASE_EXPORT std::string JoinString(
454 const std::vector<std::string>& parts, char s);
456 // Join |parts| using |separator|.
457 BASE_EXPORT std::string JoinString(
458 const std::vector<std::string>& parts,
459 const std::string& separator);
460 BASE_EXPORT base::string16 JoinString(
461 const std::vector<base::string16>& parts,
462 const base::string16& separator);
464 // Replace $1-$2-$3..$9 in the format string with |a|-|b|-|c|..|i| respectively.
465 // Additionally, any number of consecutive '$' characters is replaced by that
466 // number less one. Eg $$->$, $$$->$$, etc. The offsets parameter here can be
467 // NULL. This only allows you to use up to nine replacements.
468 BASE_EXPORT base::string16 ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
469 const base::string16& format_string,
470 const std::vector<base::string16>& subst,
471 std::vector<size_t>* offsets);
473 BASE_EXPORT std::string ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
474 const base::StringPiece& format_string,
475 const std::vector<std::string>& subst,
476 std::vector<size_t>* offsets);
478 // Single-string shortcut for ReplaceStringHolders. |offset| may be NULL.
479 BASE_EXPORT base::string16 ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
480 const base::string16& format_string,
481 const base::string16& a,
482 size_t* offset);
484 // Returns true if the string passed in matches the pattern. The pattern
485 // string can contain wildcards like * and ?
486 // The backslash character (\) is an escape character for * and ?
487 // We limit the patterns to having a max of 16 * or ? characters.
488 // ? matches 0 or 1 character, while * matches 0 or more characters.
489 BASE_EXPORT bool MatchPattern(const base::StringPiece& string,
490 const base::StringPiece& pattern);
491 BASE_EXPORT bool MatchPattern(const base::string16& string,
492 const base::string16& pattern);
494 // Hack to convert any char-like type to its unsigned counterpart.
495 // For example, it will convert char, signed char and unsigned char to unsigned
496 // char.
497 template<typename T>
498 struct ToUnsigned {
499 typedef T Unsigned;
502 template<>
503 struct ToUnsigned<char> {
504 typedef unsigned char Unsigned;
506 template<>
507 struct ToUnsigned<signed char> {
508 typedef unsigned char Unsigned;
510 template<>
511 struct ToUnsigned<wchar_t> {
512 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF16)
513 typedef unsigned short Unsigned;
514 #elif defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
515 typedef uint32 Unsigned;
516 #endif
518 template<>
519 struct ToUnsigned<short> {
520 typedef unsigned short Unsigned;
523 #endif // BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_