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2 * vlc_strings.h: String functions
3 *****************************************************************************
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7 * Authors: Antoine Cellerier <dionoea at videolan dot org>
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25 #define VLC_STRINGS_H 1
28 * \defgroup strings String helpers
31 * Helper functions for nul-terminated strings
34 static inline int vlc_ascii_toupper( int c
)
36 if ( c
>= 'a' && c
<= 'z' )
37 return c
+ ( 'A' - 'a' );
42 static inline int vlc_ascii_tolower( int c
)
44 if ( c
>= 'A' && c
<= 'Z' )
45 return c
+ ( 'a' - 'A' );
51 * Compare two ASCII strings ignoring case.
53 * The result is independent of the locale. If there are non-ASCII
54 * characters in the strings, their cases are NOT ignored in the
57 static inline int vlc_ascii_strcasecmp( const char *psz1
, const char *psz2
)
59 const char *s1
= psz1
;
60 const char *s2
= psz2
;
61 int d
= vlc_ascii_tolower( *s1
) - vlc_ascii_tolower( *s2
);
62 while ( *s1
&& d
== 0)
66 d
= vlc_ascii_tolower( *s1
) - vlc_ascii_tolower( *s2
);
72 static inline int vlc_ascii_strncasecmp( const char *psz1
, const char *psz2
, size_t n
)
74 const char *s1
= psz1
;
75 const char *s2
= psz2
;
76 const char *s1end
= psz1
+ n
;
77 int d
= vlc_ascii_tolower( *s1
) - vlc_ascii_tolower( *s2
);
78 while ( *s1
&& s1
< s1end
&& d
== 0)
82 d
= vlc_ascii_tolower( *s1
) - vlc_ascii_tolower( *s2
);
92 * Decodes XML entities.
94 * Decodes a null-terminated UTF-8 string of XML character data into a regular
95 * nul-terminated UTF-8 string. In other words, replaces XML entities and
96 * numerical character references with the corresponding characters.
98 * This function operates in place (the output is always of smaller or equal
99 * length than the input) and always succeeds.
101 * \param str null-terminated string [IN/OUT]
103 VLC_API
void vlc_xml_decode(char *st
);
106 * Encodes XML entites.
108 * Substitutes unsafe characters in a null-terminated UTF-8 strings with an
109 * XML entity or numerical character reference.
111 * \param str null terminated UTF-8 string
112 * \return On success, a heap-allocated null-terminated string is returned.
113 * If the input string was not a valid UTF-8 sequence, NULL is returned and
114 * errno is set to EILSEQ.
115 * If there was not enough memory, NULL is returned and errno is to ENOMEM.
117 VLC_API
char *vlc_xml_encode(const char *str
) VLC_MALLOC
;
119 VLC_API
char * vlc_b64_encode_binary( const uint8_t *, size_t );
120 VLC_API
char * vlc_b64_encode( const char * );
122 VLC_API
size_t vlc_b64_decode_binary_to_buffer( uint8_t *p_dst
, size_t i_dst_max
, const char *psz_src
);
123 VLC_API
size_t vlc_b64_decode_binary( uint8_t **pp_dst
, const char *psz_src
);
124 VLC_API
char * vlc_b64_decode( const char *psz_src
);
127 * Convenience wrapper for strftime().
129 * Formats the current time into a heap-allocated string.
131 * @param tformat time format (as with C strftime())
132 * @return an allocated string (must be free()'d), or NULL on memory error.
134 VLC_API
char *vlc_strftime( const char * );
137 * Formats input meta-data.
139 * Formats input and input item meta-informations into a heap-allocated string.
141 VLC_API
char *vlc_strfinput( input_thread_t
*, const char * );
143 static inline char *str_format( input_thread_t
*input
, const char *fmt
)
145 char *s1
= vlc_strftime( fmt
);
146 char *s2
= vlc_strfinput( input
, s1
);
151 void filename_sanitize(char *);