ext/scintilla/src/UniqueString.h

   1 // Scintilla source code edit control
   2 /** @file UniqueString.h
   3  ** Define UniqueString, a unique_ptr based string type for storage in containers
   4  ** and an allocator for UniqueString.
   5  **/
   6 // Copyright 2017 by Neil Hodgson <neilh@scintilla.org>
   7 // The License.txt file describes the conditions under which this software may be distributed.
   8
   9 #ifndef UNIQUESTRING_H
  10 #define UNIQUESTRING_H
  11
  12 namespace Scintilla {
  13
  14 using UniqueString = std::unique_ptr<const char[]>;
  15
  16 /// Equivalent to strdup but produces a std::unique_ptr<const char[]> allocation to go
  17 /// into collections.
  18 inline UniqueString UniqueStringCopy(const char *text) {
  19         if (!text) {
  20                 return UniqueString();
  21         }
  22         const size_t len = strlen(text);
  23         char *sNew = new char[len + 1];
  24         std::copy(text, text + len + 1, sNew);
  25         return UniqueString(sNew);
  26 }
  27
  28 }
  29
  30 #endif