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std.string

String handling functions. Objects of types string, wstring, and dstring are value types and cannot be mutated element-by-element. For using mutation during building strings, use char[], wchar[], or dchar[]. The *string types are preferable because they don't exhibit undesired aliasing, thus making code more robust.

License:
Boost License 1.0.

Authors:
Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Jonathan M Davis

Source:
std/string.d

class StringException: object.Exception;

Exception thrown on errors in std.string functions.

this(string msg, string file = __FILE__, size_t line = __LINE__, Throwable next = null);

Parameters:

string msg	The message for the exception.
string file	The file where the exception occurred.
size_t line	The line number where the exception occurred.
Throwable next	The previous exception in the chain of exceptions, if any.

int icmp(alias pred = "a < b", S1, S2)(S1 s1, S2 s2);

Compares two ranges of characters lexicographically. The comparison is case insensitive. Use XREF algorithm, cmp for a case sensitive comparison. icmp works like XREF algorithm, cmp except that it converts characters to lowercase prior to applying ($D pred). Technically, icmp(r1, r2) is equivalent to cmp!"std.uni.toLower(a) < std.uni.toLower(b)"(r1, r2).


< 0	s1 < s2
= 0	s1 == s2
> 0	s1 > s2

pure nothrow immutable(char)* toStringz(const(char)[] s); pure nothrow immutable(char)* toStringz(string s);

Returns a C-style zero-terminated string equivalent to s. s must not contain embedded '\0''s as any C function will treat the first '\0' that it sees as the end of the string. If s.empty is true, then a string containing only '\0' is returned.

Important Note: When passing a char* to a C function, and the C function keeps it around for any reason, make sure that you keep a reference to it in your D code. Otherwise, it may go away during a garbage collection cycle and cause a nasty bug when the C code tries to use it.

enum CaseSensitive;

Flag indicating whether a search is case-sensitive.

pure ptrdiff_t indexOf(Char)(in Char[] s, dchar c, CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.yes);

Returns the index of the first occurence of c in s. If c is not found, then -1 is returned.

cs indicates whether the comparisons are case sensitive.

ptrdiff_t indexOf(Char1, Char2)(const(Char1)[] s, const(Char2)[] sub, CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.yes);

Returns the index of the first occurence of sub in s. If sub is not found, then -1 is returned.

cs indicates whether the comparisons are case sensitive.

ptrdiff_t lastIndexOf(Char)(const(Char)[] s, dchar c, CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.yes);

Returns the index of the last occurence of c in s. If c is not found, then -1 is returned.

cs indicates whether the comparisons are case sensitive.

ptrdiff_t lastIndexOf(Char1, Char2)(const(Char1)[] s, const(Char2)[] sub, CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.yes);

Returns the index of the last occurence of sub in s. If sub is not found, then -1 is returned.

cs indicates whether the comparisons are case sensitive.

pure nothrow auto representation(Char)(Char[] s);

Returns the representation of a string, which has the same type as the string except the character type is replaced by ubyte, ushort, or uint depending on the character width.

Example:

string s = "hello";
static assert(is(typeof(representation(s)) == immutable(ubyte)[]));
assert(representation(s) is cast(immutable(ubyte)[]) s);
assert(representation(s) == [0x68, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f]);

pure @trusted S toLower(S)(S s);

Returns a string which is identical to s except that all of its characters are lowercase (in unicode, not just ASCII). If s does not have any uppercase characters, then s is returned.

void toLowerInPlace(C)(ref C[] s);

Converts s to lowercase (in unicode, not just ASCII) in place. If s does not have any uppercase characters, then s is unaltered.

pure @trusted S toUpper(S)(S s);

Returns a string which is identical to s except that all of its characters are uppercase (in unicode, not just ASCII). If s does not have any lowercase characters, then s is returned.

void toUpperInPlace(C)(ref C[] s);

Converts s to uppercase (in unicode, not just ASCII) in place. If s does not have any lowercase characters, then s is unaltered.

pure @trusted S capitalize(S)(S s);

Capitalize the first character of s and conver the rest of s to lowercase.

enum KeepTerminator; S[] splitLines(S)(S s, KeepTerminator keepTerm = KeepTerminator.no);

Split s into an array of lines using '\r', '\n', "\r\n", std.uni.lineSep, and std.uni.paraSep as delimiters. If keepTerm is set to KeepTerminator.yes, then the delimiter is included in the strings returned.

pure @safe C[] stripLeft(C)(C[] str);

Strips leading whitespace.

Examples:

assert(stripLeft("     hello world     ") ==
       "hello world     ");
assert(stripLeft("\n\t\v\rhello world\n\t\v\r") ==
       "hello world\n\t\v\r");
assert(stripLeft("hello world") ==
       "hello world");
assert(stripLeft([lineSep] ~ "hello world" ~ lineSep) ==
       "hello world" ~ [lineSep]);
assert(stripLeft([paraSep] ~ "hello world" ~ paraSep) ==
       "hello world" ~ [paraSep]);

C[] stripRight(C)(C[] str);

Strips trailing whitespace.

Examples:

assert(stripRight("     hello world     ") ==
       "     hello world");
assert(stripRight("\n\t\v\rhello world\n\t\v\r") ==
       "\n\t\v\rhello world");
assert(stripRight("hello world") ==
       "hello world");
assert(stripRight([lineSep] ~ "hello world" ~ lineSep) ==
       [lineSep] ~ "hello world");
assert(stripRight([paraSep] ~ "hello world" ~ paraSep) ==
       [paraSep] ~ "hello world");

C[] strip(C)(C[] str);

Strips both leading and trailing whitespace.

Examples:

assert(strip("     hello world     ") ==
       "hello world");
assert(strip("\n\t\v\rhello world\n\t\v\r") ==
       "hello world");
assert(strip("hello world") ==
       "hello world");
assert(strip([lineSep] ~ "hello world" ~ [lineSep]) ==
       "hello world");
assert(strip([paraSep] ~ "hello world" ~ [paraSep]) ==
       "hello world");

C[] chomp(C)(C[] str); C1[] chomp(C1, C2)(C1[] str, const(C2)[] delimiter);

If str ends with delimiter, then str is returned without delimiter on its end. If it str does not end with delimiter, then it is returned unchanged.

If no delimiter is given, then one trailing '\r', '\n', "\r\n", std.uni.lineSep, or std.uni.paraSep is removed from the end of str. If str does not end with any of those characters, then it is returned unchanged.

Examples:

assert(chomp(" hello world  \n\r") == " hello world  \n");
assert(chomp(" hello world  \r\n") == " hello world  ");
assert(chomp(" hello world  \n\n") == " hello world  \n");
assert(chomp(" hello world  \n\n ") == " hello world  \n\n ");
assert(chomp(" hello world  \n\n" ~ [lineSep]) == " hello world  \n\n");
assert(chomp(" hello world  \n\n" ~ [paraSep]) == " hello world  \n\n");
assert(chomp(" hello world") == " hello world");
assert(chomp("") == "");

assert(chomp(" hello world", "orld") == " hello w");
assert(chomp(" hello world", " he") == " hello world");
assert(chomp("", "hello") == "");

C1[] chompPrefix(C1, C2)(C1[] str, C2[] delimiter);

If str starts with delimiter, then the part of str following delimiter is returned. If it str does not start with delimiter, then it is returned unchanged.

Examples:

assert(chompPrefix("hello world", "he") == "llo world");
assert(chompPrefix("hello world", "hello w") == "orld");
assert(chompPrefix("hello world", " world") == "hello world");
assert(chompPrefix("", "hello") == "");

S chop(S)(S str);

Returns str without its last character, if there is one. If str ends with "\r\n", then both are removed. If str is empty, then then it is returned unchanged.

Examples:

assert(chop("hello world") == "hello worl");
assert(chop("hello world\n") == "hello world");
assert(chop("hello world\r") == "hello world");
assert(chop("hello world\n\r") == "hello world\n");
assert(chop("hello world\r\n") == "hello world");
assert(chop("Walter Bright") == "Walter Brigh");
assert(chop("") == "");

@trusted S leftJustify(S)(S s, size_t width, dchar fillChar = ' ');

Left justify s in a field width characters wide. fillChar is the character that will be used to fill up the space in the field that s doesn't fill.

@trusted S rightJustify(S)(S s, size_t width, dchar fillChar = ' ');

Right justify s in a field width characters wide. fillChar is the character that will be used to fill up the space in the field that s doesn't fill.

@trusted S center(S)(S s, size_t width, dchar fillChar = ' ');

Center s in a field width characters wide. fillChar is the character that will be used to fill up the space in the field that s doesn't fill.

pure @trusted S detab(S)(S s, size_t tabSize = 8);

Replace each tab character in s with the number of spaces necessary to align the following character at the next tab stop where tabSize is the distance between tab stops.

pure @trusted S entab(S)(S s, size_t tabSize = 8);

Replaces spaces in s with the optimal number of tabs. All spaces and tabs at the end of a line are removed.

Parameters:

s	String to convert.
tabSize	Tab columns are tabSize spaces apart.

@safe C1[] translate(C1, C2 = immutable(char))(C1[] str, dchar[dchar] transTable, const(C2)[] toRemove = null); @safe C1[] translate(C1, S, C2 = immutable(char))(C1[] str, S[dchar] transTable, const(C2)[] toRemove = null);

Replaces the characters in str which are keys in transTable with their corresponding values in transTable. transTable is an AA where its keys are dchar and its values are either dchar or some type of string. Also, if toRemove is given, the characters in it are removed from str prior to translation. str itself is unaltered. A copy with the changes is returned.

See Also:
tr std.array.replace

Parameters:

str	The original string.
transTable	The AA indicating which characters to replace and what to replace them with.
toRemove	The characters to remove from the string.

Examples:

dchar[dchar] transTable1 = ['e' : '5', 'o' : '7', '5': 'q'];
assert(translate("hello world", transTable1) == "h5ll7 w7rld");

assert(translate("hello world", transTable1, "low") == "h5 rd");

string[dchar] transTable2 = ['e' : "5", 'o' : "orange"];
assert(translate("hello world", transTable2) == "h5llorange worangerld");

nothrow @trusted C[] translate(C = immutable(char))(in char[] str, in char[] transTable, in char[] toRemove = null); pure nothrow @trusted string makeTrans(in char[] from, in char[] to);

This is an ASCII-only overload of translate. It will not work with Unicode. It exists as an optimization for the cases where Unicode processing is not necessary.

Unlike the other overloads of translate, this one does not take an AA. Rather, it takes a string generated by makeTrans.

The array generated by makeTrans is 256 elements long such that the index is equal to the ASCII character being replaced and the value is equal to the character that it's being replaced with. Note that translate does not decode any of the characters, so you can actually pass it Extended ASCII characters if you want to (ASCII only actually uses 128 characters), but be warned that Extended ASCII characters are not valid Unicode and therefore will result in a UTFException being thrown from most other Phobos functions.

Also, because no decoding occurs, it is possible to use this overload to translate ASCII characters within a proper UTF-8 string without altering the other, non-ASCII characters. It's replacing any code unit greater than 127 with another code unit or replacing any code unit with another code unit greater than 127 which will cause UTF validation issues.

See Also:
tr std.array.replace

Parameters:

str	The original string.
transTable	The string indicating which characters to replace and what to replace them with. It is generated by makeTrans.
toRemove	The characters to remove from the string.

Examples:

auto transTable1 = makeTrans("eo5", "57q");
assert(translate("hello world", transTable1) == "h5ll7 w7rld");

assert(translate("hello world", transTable1, "low") == "h5 rd");

string format(Char, Args...)(in Char[] fmt, Args args);

Format arguments into a string.

format's current implementation has been replaced with xformat's implementation. in November 2012. This is seamless for most code, but it makes it so that the only argument that can be a format string is the first one, so any code which used multiple format strings has broken. Please change your calls to format accordingly.

e.g.:

format("key = %s", key, ", value = %s", value)

needs to be rewritten as:

format("key = %s, value = %s", key, value)

char[] sformat(Char, Args...)(char[] buf, in Char[] fmt, Args args);

Format arguments into string s which must be large enough to hold the result. Throws RangeError if it is not.

Returns:
s

sformat's current implementation has been replaced with xsformat's implementation. in November 2012. This is seamless for most code, but it makes it so that the only argument that can be a format string is the first one, so any code which used multiple format strings has broken. Please change your calls to sformat accordingly.

e.g.:

sformat(buf, "key = %s", key, ", value = %s", value)

needs to be rewritten as:

sformat(buf, "key = %s, value = %s", key, value)

string xformat(Char, Args...)(in Char[] fmt, Args args);

Format arguments into a string.

format has been changed to use this implementation in November 2012. Then xformat has been scheduled for deprecation at the same time. It will be deprecateed in May 2013.

char[] xsformat(Char, Args...)(char[] buf, in Char[] fmt, Args args);

Format arguments into string buf which must be large enough to hold the result. Throws RangeError if it is not.

sformat has been changed to use this implementation in November 2012. Then xsformat has been scheduled for deprecation at the same time. It will be deprecateed in May 2013.

Returns:
filled slice of buf

bool inPattern(S)(dchar c, in S pattern);

See if character c is in the pattern.

Patterns:
A pattern is an array of characters much like a character class in regular expressions. A sequence of characters can be given, such as "abcde". The '-' can represent a range of characters, as "a-e" represents the same pattern as "abcde". "a-fA-F0-9" represents all the hex characters. If the first character of a pattern is '^', then the pattern is negated, i.e. "^0-9" means any character except a digit. The functions inPattern, countchars, removeschars, and squeeze use patterns.

Note:
In the future, the pattern syntax may be improved to be more like regular expression character classes.

bool inPattern(S)(dchar c, S[] patterns);

See if character c is in the intersection of the patterns.

size_t countchars(S, S1)(S s, in S1 pattern);

Count characters in s that match pattern.

S removechars(S)(S s, in S pattern);

Return string that is s with all characters removed that match pattern.

S squeeze(S)(S s, in S pattern = null);

Return string where sequences of a character in s[] from pattern[] are replaced with a single instance of that character. If pattern is null, it defaults to all characters.

S1 munch(S1, S2)(ref S1 s, S2 pattern);

Finds the position pos of the first character in s that does not match pattern (in the terminology used by inPattern). Updates s = s[pos..$]. Returns the slice from the beginning of the original (before update) string up to, and excluding, pos.

Example:

string s = "123abc";
string t = munch(s, "0123456789");
assert(t == "123" && s == "abc");
t = munch(s, "0123456789");
assert(t == "" && s == "abc");

The munch function is mostly convenient for skipping certain category of characters (e.g. whitespace) when parsing strings. (In such cases, the return value is not used.)

S succ(S)(S s);

Return string that is the 'successor' to s[]. If the rightmost character is a-zA-Z0-9, it is incremented within its case or digits. If it generates a carry, the process is repeated with the one to its immediate left.

C1[] tr(C1, C2, C3, C4 = immutable(char))(C1[] str, const(C2)[] from, const(C3)[] to, const(C4)[] modifiers = null);

Replaces the characters in str which are in from with the the corresponding characters in to and returns the resulting string.

tr is based on Posix's tr, though it doesn't do everything that the Posix utility does.

Parameters:

str	The original string.
from	The characters to replace.
to	The characters to replace with.
modifiers	String containing modifiers.

Modifiers:


Modifier	Description
'c'	Complement the list of characters in from
'd'	Removes matching characters with no corresponding replacement in to
's'	Removes adjacent duplicates in the replaced characters

If the modifier 'd' is present, then the number of characters in to may be only 0 or 1.

If the modifier 'd' is not present, and to is empty, then to is taken to be the same as from.

If the modifier 'd' is not present, and to is shorter than from, then to is extended by replicating the last charcter in to.

Both from and to may contain ranges using the '-' character (e.g. "a-d" is synonymous with "abcd.) Neither accept a leading '^' as meaning the complement of the string (use the 'c' modifier for that).

bool isNumeric(const(char)[] s, in bool bAllowSep = false);

[in] string s can be formatted in the following ways:

Integer Whole Number: (for byte, ubyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, and ulong) ['+'|'-']digit(s)[U|L|UL]

Examples:
123, 123UL, 123L, +123U, -123L

Floating-Point Number: (for float, double, real, ifloat, idouble, and ireal) ['+'|'-']digit(s)[.][digit(s)][[e-|e+]digit(s)][i|f|L|Li|fi]] or [nan|nani|inf|-inf]

Examples:
+123., -123.01, 123.3e-10f, 123.3e-10fi, 123.3e-10L

(for cfloat, cdouble, and creal) ['+'|'-']digit(s)[.][digit(s)][[e-|e+]digit(s)][+] [digit(s)[.][digit(s)][[e-|e+]digit(s)][i|f|L|Li|fi]] or [nan|nani|nan+nani|inf|-inf]

Examples:
nan, -123e-1+456.9e-10Li, +123e+10+456i, 123+456

[in] bool bAllowSep False by default, but when set to true it will accept the separator characters "," and "" within the string, but these characters should be stripped from the string before using any of the conversion functions like toInt(), toFloat(), and etc else an error will occur.

Also please note, that no spaces are allowed within the string anywhere whether it's a leading, trailing, or embedded space(s), thus they too must be stripped from the string before using this function, or any of the conversion functions.

char[] soundex(const(char)[] string, char[] buffer = null);

Soundex algorithm.

The Soundex algorithm converts a word into 4 characters based on how the word sounds phonetically. The idea is that two spellings that sound alike will have the same Soundex value, which means that Soundex can be used for fuzzy matching of names.

Parameters:

const(char)[] string	String to convert to Soundex representation.
char[] buffer	Optional 4 char array to put the resulting Soundex characters into. If null, the return value buffer will be allocated on the heap.

Returns:
The four character array with the Soundex result in it. Returns null if there is no Soundex representation for the string.

See Also:
Wikipedia, The Soundex Indexing System

BUGS:
Only works well with English names. There are other arguably better Soundex algorithms, but this one is the standard one.

string[string] abbrev(string[] values);

Construct an associative array consisting of all abbreviations that uniquely map to the strings in values.

This is useful in cases where the user is expected to type in one of a known set of strings, and the program will helpfully autocomplete the string once sufficient characters have been entered that uniquely identify it.

Example:

 import std.stdio;
 import std.string;

 void main()
 {
    static string[] list = [ "food", "foxy" ];

    auto abbrevs = std.string.abbrev(list);

    foreach (key, value; abbrevs)
    {
       writefln("%s => %s", key, value);
    }
 }

produces the output:

 fox => foxy
 food => food
 foxy => foxy
 foo => food

size_t column(S)(S str, size_t tabsize = 8);

Compute column number after string if string starts in the leftmost column, which is numbered starting from 0.

S wrap(S)(S s, size_t columns = 80, S firstindent = null, S indent = null, size_t tabsize = 8);

Wrap text into a paragraph.

The input text string s is formed into a paragraph by breaking it up into a sequence of lines, delineated by \n, such that the number of columns is not exceeded on each line. The last line is terminated with a \n.

Parameters:

s	text string to be wrapped
columns	maximum number of columns in the paragraph
firstindent	string used to indent first line of the paragraph
indent	string to use to indent following lines of the paragraph
tabsize	column spacing of tabs

Returns:
The resulting paragraph.

S outdent(S)(S str); S[] outdent(S)(S[] lines);

Removes indentation from a multi-line string or an array of single-line strings.

This uniformly outdents the text as much as possible. Whitespace-only lines are always converted to blank lines.

A StringException will be thrown if inconsistent indentation prevents the input from being outdented.

Works at compile-time.

Example:

 writeln(q{
     import std.stdio;
     void main() {
         writeln("Hello");
     }
 }.outdent());

Output:

 import std.stdio;
 void main() {
     writeln("Hello");
 }

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