1 // Copyright (c) 2011 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.
5 // This file defines utility functions for working with strings.
7 #ifndef BASE_STRING_UTIL_H_
8 #define BASE_STRING_UTIL_H_
11 #include <stdarg.h> // va_list
16 #include "base/base_export.h"
17 #include "base/basictypes.h"
18 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
19 #include "base/string16.h"
20 #include "base/string_piece.h" // For implicit conversions.
22 // Safe standard library wrappers for all platforms.
26 // C standard-library functions like "strncasecmp" and "snprintf" that aren't
27 // cross-platform are provided as "base::strncasecmp", and their prototypes
28 // are listed below. These functions are then implemented as inline calls
29 // to the platform-specific equivalents in the platform-specific headers.
31 // Compares the two strings s1 and s2 without regard to case using
32 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
33 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
34 int strcasecmp(const char* s1
, const char* s2
);
36 // Compares up to count characters of s1 and s2 without regard to case using
37 // the current locale; returns 0 if they are equal, 1 if s1 > s2, and -1 if
38 // s2 > s1 according to a lexicographic comparison.
39 int strncasecmp(const char* s1
, const char* s2
, size_t count
);
41 // Same as strncmp but for char16 strings.
42 int strncmp16(const char16
* s1
, const char16
* s2
, size_t count
);
44 // Wrapper for vsnprintf that always null-terminates and always returns the
45 // number of characters that would be in an untruncated formatted
46 // string, even when truncation occurs.
47 int vsnprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, va_list arguments
)
50 // vswprintf always null-terminates, but when truncation occurs, it will either
51 // return -1 or the number of characters that would be in an untruncated
52 // formatted string. The actual return value depends on the underlying
53 // C library's vswprintf implementation.
54 int vswprintf(wchar_t* buffer
, size_t size
,
55 const wchar_t* format
, va_list arguments
)
58 // Some of these implementations need to be inlined.
60 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
61 // function just so the PRINTF_FORMAT works.
62 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...)
64 inline int snprintf(char* buffer
, size_t size
, const char* format
, ...) {
66 va_start(arguments
, format
);
67 int result
= vsnprintf(buffer
, size
, format
, arguments
);
72 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
73 // function just so the WPRINTF_FORMAT works.
74 inline int swprintf(wchar_t* buffer
, size_t size
, const wchar_t* format
, ...)
76 inline int swprintf(wchar_t* buffer
, size_t size
, const wchar_t* format
, ...) {
78 va_start(arguments
, format
);
79 int result
= vswprintf(buffer
, size
, format
, arguments
);
84 // BSD-style safe and consistent string copy functions.
85 // Copies |src| to |dst|, where |dst_size| is the total allocated size of |dst|.
86 // Copies at most |dst_size|-1 characters, and always NULL terminates |dst|, as
87 // long as |dst_size| is not 0. Returns the length of |src| in characters.
88 // If the return value is >= dst_size, then the output was truncated.
89 // NOTE: All sizes are in number of characters, NOT in bytes.
90 BASE_EXPORT
size_t strlcpy(char* dst
, const char* src
, size_t dst_size
);
91 BASE_EXPORT
size_t wcslcpy(wchar_t* dst
, const wchar_t* src
, size_t dst_size
);
93 // Scan a wprintf format string to determine whether it's portable across a
94 // variety of systems. This function only checks that the conversion
95 // specifiers used by the format string are supported and have the same meaning
96 // on a variety of systems. It doesn't check for other errors that might occur
97 // within a format string.
99 // Nonportable conversion specifiers for wprintf are:
100 // - 's' and 'c' without an 'l' length modifier. %s and %c operate on char
101 // data on all systems except Windows, which treat them as wchar_t data.
102 // Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data instead.
103 // - 'S' and 'C', which operate on wchar_t data on all systems except Windows,
104 // which treat them as char data. Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data
106 // - 'F', which is not identified by Windows wprintf documentation.
107 // - 'D', 'O', and 'U', which are deprecated and not available on all systems.
108 // Use %ld, %lo, and %lu instead.
110 // Note that there is no portable conversion specifier for char data when
111 // working with wprintf.
113 // This function is intended to be called from base::vswprintf.
114 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsWprintfFormatPortable(const wchar_t* format
);
116 // ASCII-specific tolower. The standard library's tolower is locale sensitive,
117 // so we don't want to use it here.
118 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToLowerASCII(Char c
) {
119 return (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'Z') ? (c
+ ('a' - 'A')) : c
;
122 // ASCII-specific toupper. The standard library's toupper is locale sensitive,
123 // so we don't want to use it here.
124 template <class Char
> inline Char
ToUpperASCII(Char c
) {
125 return (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'z') ? (c
+ ('A' - 'a')) : c
;
128 // Function objects to aid in comparing/searching strings.
130 template<typename Char
> struct CaseInsensitiveCompare
{
132 bool operator()(Char x
, Char y
) const {
133 // TODO(darin): Do we really want to do locale sensitive comparisons here?
134 // See http://crbug.com/24917
135 return tolower(x
) == tolower(y
);
139 template<typename Char
> struct CaseInsensitiveCompareASCII
{
141 bool operator()(Char x
, Char y
) const {
142 return ToLowerASCII(x
) == ToLowerASCII(y
);
149 #include "base/string_util_win.h"
150 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
151 #include "base/string_util_posix.h"
153 #error Define string operations appropriately for your platform
156 // These threadsafe functions return references to globally unique empty
159 // DO NOT USE THESE AS A GENERAL-PURPOSE SUBSTITUTE FOR DEFAULT CONSTRUCTORS.
160 // There is only one case where you should use these: functions which need to
161 // return a string by reference (e.g. as a class member accessor), and don't
162 // have an empty string to use (e.g. in an error case). These should not be
163 // used as initializers, function arguments, or return values for functions
164 // which return by value or outparam.
165 BASE_EXPORT
const std::string
& EmptyString();
166 BASE_EXPORT
const std::wstring
& EmptyWString();
167 BASE_EXPORT
const string16
& EmptyString16();
169 BASE_EXPORT
extern const wchar_t kWhitespaceWide
[];
170 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char16 kWhitespaceUTF16
[];
171 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kWhitespaceASCII
[];
173 BASE_EXPORT
extern const char kUtf8ByteOrderMark
[];
175 // Removes characters in |remove_chars| from anywhere in |input|. Returns true
176 // if any characters were removed. |remove_chars| must be null-terminated.
177 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
178 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const string16
& input
,
179 const char16 remove_chars
[],
181 BASE_EXPORT
bool RemoveChars(const std::string
& input
,
182 const char remove_chars
[],
183 std::string
* output
);
185 // Replaces characters in |replace_chars| from anywhere in |input| with
186 // |replace_with|. Each character in |replace_chars| will be replaced with
187 // the |replace_with| string. Returns true if any characters were replaced.
188 // |replace_chars| must be null-terminated.
189 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
190 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const string16
& input
,
191 const char16 replace_chars
[],
192 const string16
& replace_with
,
194 BASE_EXPORT
bool ReplaceChars(const std::string
& input
,
195 const char replace_chars
[],
196 const std::string
& replace_with
,
197 std::string
* output
);
199 // Removes characters in |trim_chars| from the beginning and end of |input|.
200 // |trim_chars| must be null-terminated.
201 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
202 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const std::wstring
& input
,
203 const wchar_t trim_chars
[],
204 std::wstring
* output
);
205 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const string16
& input
,
206 const char16 trim_chars
[],
208 BASE_EXPORT
bool TrimString(const std::string
& input
,
209 const char trim_chars
[],
210 std::string
* output
);
212 // Truncates a string to the nearest UTF-8 character that will leave
213 // the string less than or equal to the specified byte size.
214 BASE_EXPORT
void TruncateUTF8ToByteSize(const std::string
& input
,
215 const size_t byte_size
,
216 std::string
* output
);
218 // Trims any whitespace from either end of the input string. Returns where
219 // whitespace was found.
220 // The non-wide version has two functions:
221 // * TrimWhitespaceASCII()
222 // This function is for ASCII strings and only looks for ASCII whitespace;
223 // Please choose the best one according to your usage.
224 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both input and output.
227 TRIM_LEADING
= 1 << 0,
228 TRIM_TRAILING
= 1 << 1,
229 TRIM_ALL
= TRIM_LEADING
| TRIM_TRAILING
,
231 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const string16
& input
,
232 TrimPositions positions
,
234 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespaceASCII(const std::string
& input
,
235 TrimPositions positions
,
236 std::string
* output
);
238 // Deprecated. This function is only for backward compatibility and calls
239 // TrimWhitespaceASCII().
240 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions
TrimWhitespace(const std::string
& input
,
241 TrimPositions positions
,
242 std::string
* output
);
244 // Searches for CR or LF characters. Removes all contiguous whitespace
245 // strings that contain them. This is useful when trying to deal with text
246 // copied from terminals.
247 // Returns |text|, with the following three transformations:
248 // (1) Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed.
249 // (2) If |trim_sequences_with_line_breaks| is true, any other whitespace
250 // sequences containing a CR or LF are trimmed.
251 // (3) All other whitespace sequences are converted to single spaces.
252 BASE_EXPORT
std::wstring
CollapseWhitespace(
253 const std::wstring
& text
,
254 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
255 BASE_EXPORT string16
CollapseWhitespace(
256 const string16
& text
,
257 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
258 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
CollapseWhitespaceASCII(
259 const std::string
& text
,
260 bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks
);
262 // Returns true if the passed string is empty or contains only white-space
264 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyWhitespaceASCII(const std::string
& str
);
265 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyWhitespace(const string16
& str
);
267 // Returns true if |input| is empty or contains only characters found in
269 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const std::wstring
& input
,
270 const std::wstring
& characters
);
271 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const string16
& input
,
272 const string16
& characters
);
273 BASE_EXPORT
bool ContainsOnlyChars(const std::string
& input
,
274 const std::string
& characters
);
276 // Converts to 7-bit ASCII by truncating. The result must be known to be ASCII
278 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
WideToASCII(const std::wstring
& wide
);
279 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
UTF16ToASCII(const string16
& utf16
);
281 // Converts the given wide string to the corresponding Latin1. This will fail
282 // (return false) if any characters are more than 255.
283 BASE_EXPORT
bool WideToLatin1(const std::wstring
& wide
, std::string
* latin1
);
285 // Returns true if the specified string matches the criteria. How can a wide
286 // string be 8-bit or UTF8? It contains only characters that are < 256 (in the
287 // first case) or characters that use only 8-bits and whose 8-bit
288 // representation looks like a UTF-8 string (the second case).
290 // Note that IsStringUTF8 checks not only if the input is structurally
291 // valid but also if it doesn't contain any non-character codepoint
292 // (e.g. U+FFFE). It's done on purpose because all the existing callers want
293 // to have the maximum 'discriminating' power from other encodings. If
294 // there's a use case for just checking the structural validity, we have to
295 // add a new function for that.
296 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringUTF8(const std::string
& str
);
297 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const std::wstring
& str
);
298 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const base::StringPiece
& str
);
299 BASE_EXPORT
bool IsStringASCII(const string16
& str
);
301 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
302 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
303 template <class str
> inline void StringToLowerASCII(str
* s
) {
304 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
305 *i
= base::ToLowerASCII(*i
);
308 template <class str
> inline str
StringToLowerASCII(const str
& s
) {
309 // for std::string and std::wstring
311 StringToLowerASCII(&output
);
315 // Converts the elements of the given string. This version uses a pointer to
316 // clearly differentiate it from the non-pointer variant.
317 template <class str
> inline void StringToUpperASCII(str
* s
) {
318 for (typename
str::iterator i
= s
->begin(); i
!= s
->end(); ++i
)
319 *i
= base::ToUpperASCII(*i
);
322 template <class str
> inline str
StringToUpperASCII(const str
& s
) {
323 // for std::string and std::wstring
325 StringToUpperASCII(&output
);
329 // Compare the lower-case form of the given string against the given ASCII
330 // string. This is useful for doing checking if an input string matches some
331 // token, and it is optimized to avoid intermediate string copies. This API is
332 // borrowed from the equivalent APIs in Mozilla.
333 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const std::string
& a
, const char* b
);
334 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const std::wstring
& a
, const char* b
);
335 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const string16
& a
, const char* b
);
337 // Same thing, but with string iterators instead.
338 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(std::string::const_iterator a_begin
,
339 std::string::const_iterator a_end
,
341 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(std::wstring::const_iterator a_begin
,
342 std::wstring::const_iterator a_end
,
344 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(string16::const_iterator a_begin
,
345 string16::const_iterator a_end
,
347 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char* a_begin
,
350 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const wchar_t* a_begin
,
351 const wchar_t* a_end
,
353 BASE_EXPORT
bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(const char16
* a_begin
,
357 // Performs a case-sensitive string compare. The behavior is undefined if both
358 // strings are not ASCII.
359 BASE_EXPORT
bool EqualsASCII(const string16
& a
, const base::StringPiece
& b
);
361 // Returns true if str starts with search, or false otherwise.
362 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWithASCII(const std::string
& str
,
363 const std::string
& search
,
364 bool case_sensitive
);
365 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWith(const std::wstring
& str
,
366 const std::wstring
& search
,
367 bool case_sensitive
);
368 BASE_EXPORT
bool StartsWith(const string16
& str
,
369 const string16
& search
,
370 bool case_sensitive
);
372 // Returns true if str ends with search, or false otherwise.
373 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(const std::string
& str
,
374 const std::string
& search
,
375 bool case_sensitive
);
376 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(const std::wstring
& str
,
377 const std::wstring
& search
,
378 bool case_sensitive
);
379 BASE_EXPORT
bool EndsWith(const string16
& str
,
380 const string16
& search
,
381 bool case_sensitive
);
384 // Determines the type of ASCII character, independent of locale (the C
385 // library versions will change based on locale).
386 template <typename Char
>
387 inline bool IsAsciiWhitespace(Char c
) {
388 return c
== ' ' || c
== '\r' || c
== '\n' || c
== '\t';
390 template <typename Char
>
391 inline bool IsAsciiAlpha(Char c
) {
392 return ((c
>= 'A') && (c
<= 'Z')) || ((c
>= 'a') && (c
<= 'z'));
394 template <typename Char
>
395 inline bool IsAsciiDigit(Char c
) {
396 return c
>= '0' && c
<= '9';
399 template <typename Char
>
400 inline bool IsHexDigit(Char c
) {
401 return (c
>= '0' && c
<= '9') ||
402 (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'F') ||
403 (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'f');
406 template <typename Char
>
407 inline Char
HexDigitToInt(Char c
) {
408 DCHECK(IsHexDigit(c
));
409 if (c
>= '0' && c
<= '9')
411 if (c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'F')
413 if (c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'f')
418 // Returns true if it's a whitespace character.
419 inline bool IsWhitespace(wchar_t c
) {
420 return wcschr(kWhitespaceWide
, c
) != NULL
;
423 // Return a byte string in human-readable format with a unit suffix. Not
424 // appropriate for use in any UI; use of FormatBytes and friends in ui/base is
425 // highly recommended instead. TODO(avi): Figure out how to get callers to use
426 // FormatBytes instead; remove this.
427 BASE_EXPORT string16
FormatBytesUnlocalized(int64 bytes
);
429 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), replace the first instance of
430 // |find_this| with |replace_with|.
431 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
433 string16::size_type start_offset
,
434 const string16
& find_this
,
435 const string16
& replace_with
);
436 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
438 std::string::size_type start_offset
,
439 const std::string
& find_this
,
440 const std::string
& replace_with
);
442 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), look through |str| and replace all
443 // instances of |find_this| with |replace_with|.
445 // This does entire substrings; use std::replace in <algorithm> for single
446 // characters, for example:
447 // std::replace(str.begin(), str.end(), 'a', 'b');
448 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
450 string16::size_type start_offset
,
451 const string16
& find_this
,
452 const string16
& replace_with
);
453 BASE_EXPORT
void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
455 std::string::size_type start_offset
,
456 const std::string
& find_this
,
457 const std::string
& replace_with
);
459 // Reserves enough memory in |str| to accommodate |length_with_null| characters,
460 // sets the size of |str| to |length_with_null - 1| characters, and returns a
461 // pointer to the underlying contiguous array of characters. This is typically
462 // used when calling a function that writes results into a character array, but
463 // the caller wants the data to be managed by a string-like object. It is
464 // convenient in that is can be used inline in the call, and fast in that it
465 // avoids copying the results of the call from a char* into a string.
467 // |length_with_null| must be at least 2, since otherwise the underlying string
468 // would have size 0, and trying to access &((*str)[0]) in that case can result
469 // in a number of problems.
471 // Internally, this takes linear time because the resize() call 0-fills the
472 // underlying array for potentially all
473 // (|length_with_null - 1| * sizeof(string_type::value_type)) bytes. Ideally we
474 // could avoid this aspect of the resize() call, as we expect the caller to
475 // immediately write over this memory, but there is no other way to set the size
476 // of the string, and not doing that will mean people who access |str| rather
477 // than str.c_str() will get back a string of whatever size |str| had on entry
478 // to this function (probably 0).
479 template <class string_type
>
480 inline typename
string_type::value_type
* WriteInto(string_type
* str
,
481 size_t length_with_null
) {
482 DCHECK_GT(length_with_null
, 1u);
483 str
->reserve(length_with_null
);
484 str
->resize(length_with_null
- 1);
488 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
490 // Splits a string into its fields delimited by any of the characters in
491 // |delimiters|. Each field is added to the |tokens| vector. Returns the
492 // number of tokens found.
493 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const std::wstring
& str
,
494 const std::wstring
& delimiters
,
495 std::vector
<std::wstring
>* tokens
);
496 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const string16
& str
,
497 const string16
& delimiters
,
498 std::vector
<string16
>* tokens
);
499 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const std::string
& str
,
500 const std::string
& delimiters
,
501 std::vector
<std::string
>* tokens
);
502 BASE_EXPORT
size_t Tokenize(const base::StringPiece
& str
,
503 const base::StringPiece
& delimiters
,
504 std::vector
<base::StringPiece
>* tokens
);
506 // Does the opposite of SplitString().
507 BASE_EXPORT string16
JoinString(const std::vector
<string16
>& parts
, char16 s
);
508 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
JoinString(
509 const std::vector
<std::string
>& parts
, char s
);
511 // Join |parts| using |separator|.
512 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
JoinString(
513 const std::vector
<std::string
>& parts
,
514 const std::string
& separator
);
515 BASE_EXPORT string16
JoinString(
516 const std::vector
<string16
>& parts
,
517 const string16
& separator
);
519 // Replace $1-$2-$3..$9 in the format string with |a|-|b|-|c|..|i| respectively.
520 // Additionally, any number of consecutive '$' characters is replaced by that
521 // number less one. Eg $$->$, $$$->$$, etc. The offsets parameter here can be
522 // NULL. This only allows you to use up to nine replacements.
523 BASE_EXPORT string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
524 const string16
& format_string
,
525 const std::vector
<string16
>& subst
,
526 std::vector
<size_t>* offsets
);
528 BASE_EXPORT
std::string
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
529 const base::StringPiece
& format_string
,
530 const std::vector
<std::string
>& subst
,
531 std::vector
<size_t>* offsets
);
533 // Single-string shortcut for ReplaceStringHolders. |offset| may be NULL.
534 BASE_EXPORT string16
ReplaceStringPlaceholders(const string16
& format_string
,
538 // Returns true if the string passed in matches the pattern. The pattern
539 // string can contain wildcards like * and ?
540 // The backslash character (\) is an escape character for * and ?
541 // We limit the patterns to having a max of 16 * or ? characters.
542 // ? matches 0 or 1 character, while * matches 0 or more characters.
543 BASE_EXPORT
bool MatchPattern(const base::StringPiece
& string
,
544 const base::StringPiece
& pattern
);
545 BASE_EXPORT
bool MatchPattern(const string16
& string
, const string16
& pattern
);
547 // Hack to convert any char-like type to its unsigned counterpart.
548 // For example, it will convert char, signed char and unsigned char to unsigned
556 struct ToUnsigned
<char> {
557 typedef unsigned char Unsigned
;
560 struct ToUnsigned
<signed char> {
561 typedef unsigned char Unsigned
;
564 struct ToUnsigned
<wchar_t> {
565 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF16)
566 typedef unsigned short Unsigned
;
567 #elif defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
568 typedef uint32 Unsigned
;
572 struct ToUnsigned
<short> {
573 typedef unsigned short Unsigned
;
576 #endif // BASE_STRING_UTIL_H_