ossp-pkg/str/TODO
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OSSP str - String Handling
TODO
o look at printf ideas from ../stdio/printf!!
o look at ../strnatcmp
o dynamic strings
o aprintf() variant of str_format (see end of str_format.c!)
The following *have* to be done before 1.0.0:
o perhaps a str_shave() or str_strip() function which
allows one to strip off characters out of a set from
begin and end of a string. Usually for zapping whitespaces
from begin and end of string.
=> str_shave(" \t foo bar ", " \t\n") => "foo bar"
o use stdio-style "t" strings insead of STR_TRIGRAPH bitmasks
o finish str_test.c: more tests
o Dean wrote: btw -- str_compare taking a mode argument doesn't let you trim a few
cycles by going into strcmp/strcasecmp which are usually hand-tuned
assembly beasts on most boxes. i'd go for str_compare and
str_casecompare.
The following *could* be done before 1.0.0:
o Unicode/UTF-8 support!!
o str_encode/str_decode:
- plain base64
- strict base64 (with newlines and padding, etc.)
o str to/from symbol conversion:
- long str_symbol(char *str);
o str_format merged with strptime
o str_locate could become a "mode" argument which
indicates whether "s" is small or large and if
it is small a (faster) brute force search could be done.
o str_parse could support s/.../g or even m/.../g
o one could add "vstr" support with own malloc
Dean wrote: have you seen djb's stralloc stuff? it's part of qmail.
it looks like a nice way to avoid thinking about lengths.
> I really like your Str library, but I have a question:
>
> What is its equivalent og the Perl 'g' modifier, such as in this example
> (Perl):
>
> $teststr = 'hello/world/nice/to/meet/you';
> $teststr =~ s/\//:/g;
> # $teststr == 'hello:world:nice:to:meet:you';
>
> I couldn't find it in the documentation. Has this been implemented yet?
> If not, is there some other way of doing it?
Hmmm... yes, I initially left our the /g variant because I thought just
about _matching_ like in m/.../g. But that was silly. You're right,
for s/.../ the global flag is very important. It is currently still
not implemented, but I've now added it to my TODO list for Str. OTOH
your s/\//:/g usually can be performed more easier without str_parse,
of course. Just use str_span() in a loop and replace the underlaying
character in each step until str_span reached the end of the string.
o Feedback from http://www.and.org/vstr/comparison.html:
The printf implementation is internal and based on the Apache
snprintf() function, '\'' (thousand modifiers), 'a', 'F', 'Lf',
'lld', 'td', 'zd', 'hhd' , etc. and i18n format parameter modifiers
are all completely missing Unspecified precision is broken, as is
corner cases for octal etc. also infinity/nan output is not correct
with regard to case. Buffer overflows are possible in the integer
formatting paths You can have custom modifiers, but only triggered
on the system '%' character ... so gcc will currently spam warnings.
It also looks like the ISO C std. is completely ignored for certain
corner cases. Also note that due to the fact that the strings cannot
be resized by the library the printf implementation uses a snprint()
interface, this means that data can be lost using the interface if
the programer isn't carefull.
