Telodendria/src/include/Str.h

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Jordan Bancino <@jordan:bancino.net>
*
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*
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*
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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 */