Telodendria/src/include/Str.h

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#ifndef TELODENDRIA_STR_H
#define TELODENDRIA_STR_H

/***
 * @Nm Str
 * @Nd Functions for creating and manipulating strings.
 * @Dd February 15 2023
 * @Xr Memory
 *
 * .Nm
 * provides string-related functions. It is called
 * .Nm ,
 * not String, because some platforms (Windows) do not have
 * case-sensitive filesystems, which poses a problem since
 * .Pa string.h
 * is a standard library header.
 */

#include <stddef.h>

/**
 * Take a UTF-8 codepoint and encode it into a string buffer containing
 * between 1 and 4 bytes. The string buffer is allocated on the heap,
 * so it should be freed when it is no longer needed.
 */
extern char * StrUtf8Encode(unsigned long);

/**
 * Duplicate a null-terminated string, returning a new string on the
 * heap. This is useful when a function takes in a string that it needs
 * to store for long amounts of time, even perhaps after the original
 * string is gone.
 */
extern char * StrDuplicate(const char *);

/**
 * Extract part of a null-terminated string, returning a new string on
 * the heap containing only the requested subsection. Like the
 * substring functions included with most programming languages, the
 * starting index is inclusive, and the ending index is exclusive.
 */
extern char * StrSubstr(const char *, size_t, size_t);

/**
 * A varargs function that takes a number of null-terminated strings
 * specified by the first argument, and returns a new string that
 * contains their concatenation. It works similarly to
 * .Xr strcat 3 ,
 * but it takes care of allocating memory big enough to hold all the
 * strings. Any string in the list may be NULL. If a NULL pointer is
 * passed, it is treated like an empty string.
 */
extern char * StrConcat(size_t,...);

/**
 * Return a boolean value indicating whether or not the null-terminated
 * string consists only of blank characters, as determined by
 * .Xr isblank 3 .
 */
extern int StrBlank(const char *str);

/**
 * Generate a string of the specified length, containing random
 * lowercase and uppercase letters.
 */
extern char * StrRandom(size_t);

#endif                             /* TELODENDRIA_STR_H */