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      1 // Copyright 2013 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.
      4 //
      5 // This file defines utility functions for working with strings.
      6 
      7 #ifndef BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
      8 #define BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
      9 
     10 #include <ctype.h>
     11 #include <stdarg.h>   // va_list
     12 #include <stddef.h>
     13 #include <stdint.h>
     14 
     15 #include <string>
     16 #include <vector>
     17 
     18 #include "base/base_export.h"
     19 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
     20 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
     21 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"  // For implicit conversions.
     22 #include "build/build_config.h"
     23 
     24 // On Android, bionic's stdio.h defines an snprintf macro when being built with
     25 // clang. Undefine it here so it won't collide with base::snprintf().
     26 #undef snprintf
     27 
     28 namespace base {
     29 
     30 // C standard-library functions that aren't cross-platform are provided as
     31 // "base::...", and their prototypes are listed below. These functions are
     32 // then implemented as inline calls to the platform-specific equivalents in the
     33 // platform-specific headers.
     34 
     35 // Wrapper for vsnprintf that always null-terminates and always returns the
     36 // number of characters that would be in an untruncated formatted
     37 // string, even when truncation occurs.
     38 int vsnprintf(char* buffer, size_t size, const char* format, va_list arguments)
     39     PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 0);
     40 
     41 // Some of these implementations need to be inlined.
     42 
     43 // We separate the declaration from the implementation of this inline
     44 // function just so the PRINTF_FORMAT works.
     45 inline int snprintf(char* buffer,
     46                     size_t size,
     47                     _Printf_format_string_ const char* format,
     48                     ...) PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4);
     49 inline int snprintf(char* buffer,
     50                     size_t size,
     51                     _Printf_format_string_ const char* format,
     52                     ...) {
     53   va_list arguments;
     54   va_start(arguments, format);
     55   int result = vsnprintf(buffer, size, format, arguments);
     56   va_end(arguments);
     57   return result;
     58 }
     59 
     60 // BSD-style safe and consistent string copy functions.
     61 // Copies |src| to |dst|, where |dst_size| is the total allocated size of |dst|.
     62 // Copies at most |dst_size|-1 characters, and always NULL terminates |dst|, as
     63 // long as |dst_size| is not 0.  Returns the length of |src| in characters.
     64 // If the return value is >= dst_size, then the output was truncated.
     65 // NOTE: All sizes are in number of characters, NOT in bytes.
     66 BASE_EXPORT size_t strlcpy(char* dst, const char* src, size_t dst_size);
     67 BASE_EXPORT size_t wcslcpy(wchar_t* dst, const wchar_t* src, size_t dst_size);
     68 
     69 // Scan a wprintf format string to determine whether it's portable across a
     70 // variety of systems.  This function only checks that the conversion
     71 // specifiers used by the format string are supported and have the same meaning
     72 // on a variety of systems.  It doesn't check for other errors that might occur
     73 // within a format string.
     74 //
     75 // Nonportable conversion specifiers for wprintf are:
     76 //  - 's' and 'c' without an 'l' length modifier.  %s and %c operate on char
     77 //     data on all systems except Windows, which treat them as wchar_t data.
     78 //     Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data instead.
     79 //  - 'S' and 'C', which operate on wchar_t data on all systems except Windows,
     80 //     which treat them as char data.  Use %ls and %lc for wchar_t data
     81 //     instead.
     82 //  - 'F', which is not identified by Windows wprintf documentation.
     83 //  - 'D', 'O', and 'U', which are deprecated and not available on all systems.
     84 //     Use %ld, %lo, and %lu instead.
     85 //
     86 // Note that there is no portable conversion specifier for char data when
     87 // working with wprintf.
     88 //
     89 // This function is intended to be called from base::vswprintf.
     90 BASE_EXPORT bool IsWprintfFormatPortable(const wchar_t* format);
     91 
     92 // ASCII-specific tolower.  The standard library's tolower is locale sensitive,
     93 // so we don't want to use it here.
     94 inline char ToLowerASCII(char c) {
     95   return (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') ? (c + ('a' - 'A')) : c;
     96 }
     97 inline char16 ToLowerASCII(char16 c) {
     98   return (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') ? (c + ('a' - 'A')) : c;
     99 }
    100 
    101 // ASCII-specific toupper.  The standard library's toupper is locale sensitive,
    102 // so we don't want to use it here.
    103 inline char ToUpperASCII(char c) {
    104   return (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') ? (c + ('A' - 'a')) : c;
    105 }
    106 inline char16 ToUpperASCII(char16 c) {
    107   return (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') ? (c + ('A' - 'a')) : c;
    108 }
    109 
    110 // Converts the given string to it's ASCII-lowercase equivalent.
    111 BASE_EXPORT std::string ToLowerASCII(StringPiece str);
    112 BASE_EXPORT string16 ToLowerASCII(StringPiece16 str);
    113 
    114 // Converts the given string to it's ASCII-uppercase equivalent.
    115 BASE_EXPORT std::string ToUpperASCII(StringPiece str);
    116 BASE_EXPORT string16 ToUpperASCII(StringPiece16 str);
    117 
    118 // Functor for case-insensitive ASCII comparisons for STL algorithms like
    119 // std::search.
    120 //
    121 // Note that a full Unicode version of this functor is not possible to write
    122 // because case mappings might change the number of characters, depend on
    123 // context (combining accents), and require handling UTF-16. If you need
    124 // proper Unicode support, use base::i18n::ToLower/FoldCase and then just
    125 // use a normal operator== on the result.
    126 template<typename Char> struct CaseInsensitiveCompareASCII {
    127  public:
    128   bool operator()(Char x, Char y) const {
    129     return ToLowerASCII(x) == ToLowerASCII(y);
    130   }
    131 };
    132 
    133 // Like strcasecmp for case-insensitive ASCII characters only. Returns:
    134 //   -1  (a < b)
    135 //    0  (a == b)
    136 //    1  (a > b)
    137 // (unlike strcasecmp which can return values greater or less than 1/-1). For
    138 // full Unicode support, use base::i18n::ToLower or base::i18h::FoldCase
    139 // and then just call the normal string operators on the result.
    140 BASE_EXPORT int CompareCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece a, StringPiece b);
    141 BASE_EXPORT int CompareCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece16 a, StringPiece16 b);
    142 
    143 // Equality for ASCII case-insensitive comparisons. For full Unicode support,
    144 // use base::i18n::ToLower or base::i18h::FoldCase and then compare with either
    145 // == or !=.
    146 BASE_EXPORT bool EqualsCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece a, StringPiece b);
    147 BASE_EXPORT bool EqualsCaseInsensitiveASCII(StringPiece16 a, StringPiece16 b);
    148 
    149 // These threadsafe functions return references to globally unique empty
    150 // strings.
    151 //
    152 // It is likely faster to construct a new empty string object (just a few
    153 // instructions to set the length to 0) than to get the empty string singleton
    154 // returned by these functions (which requires threadsafe singleton access).
    155 //
    156 // Therefore, DO NOT USE THESE AS A GENERAL-PURPOSE SUBSTITUTE FOR DEFAULT
    157 // CONSTRUCTORS. There is only one case where you should use these: functions
    158 // which need to return a string by reference (e.g. as a class member
    159 // accessor), and don't have an empty string to use (e.g. in an error case).
    160 // These should not be used as initializers, function arguments, or return
    161 // values for functions which return by value or outparam.
    162 BASE_EXPORT const std::string& EmptyString();
    163 BASE_EXPORT const string16& EmptyString16();
    164 
    165 // Contains the set of characters representing whitespace in the corresponding
    166 // encoding. Null-terminated. The ASCII versions are the whitespaces as defined
    167 // by HTML5, and don't include control characters.
    168 BASE_EXPORT extern const wchar_t kWhitespaceWide[];  // Includes Unicode.
    169 BASE_EXPORT extern const char16 kWhitespaceUTF16[];  // Includes Unicode.
    170 BASE_EXPORT extern const char kWhitespaceASCII[];
    171 BASE_EXPORT extern const char16 kWhitespaceASCIIAs16[];  // No unicode.
    172 
    173 // Null-terminated string representing the UTF-8 byte order mark.
    174 BASE_EXPORT extern const char kUtf8ByteOrderMark[];
    175 
    176 // Removes characters in |remove_chars| from anywhere in |input|.  Returns true
    177 // if any characters were removed.  |remove_chars| must be null-terminated.
    178 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
    179 BASE_EXPORT bool RemoveChars(const string16& input,
    180                              const StringPiece16& remove_chars,
    181                              string16* output);
    182 BASE_EXPORT bool RemoveChars(const std::string& input,
    183                              const StringPiece& remove_chars,
    184                              std::string* output);
    185 
    186 // Replaces characters in |replace_chars| from anywhere in |input| with
    187 // |replace_with|.  Each character in |replace_chars| will be replaced with
    188 // the |replace_with| string.  Returns true if any characters were replaced.
    189 // |replace_chars| must be null-terminated.
    190 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output|.
    191 BASE_EXPORT bool ReplaceChars(const string16& input,
    192                               const StringPiece16& replace_chars,
    193                               const string16& replace_with,
    194                               string16* output);
    195 BASE_EXPORT bool ReplaceChars(const std::string& input,
    196                               const StringPiece& replace_chars,
    197                               const std::string& replace_with,
    198                               std::string* output);
    199 
    200 enum TrimPositions {
    201   TRIM_NONE     = 0,
    202   TRIM_LEADING  = 1 << 0,
    203   TRIM_TRAILING = 1 << 1,
    204   TRIM_ALL      = TRIM_LEADING | TRIM_TRAILING,
    205 };
    206 
    207 // Removes characters in |trim_chars| from the beginning and end of |input|.
    208 // The 8-bit version only works on 8-bit characters, not UTF-8.
    209 //
    210 // It is safe to use the same variable for both |input| and |output| (this is
    211 // the normal usage to trim in-place).
    212 BASE_EXPORT bool TrimString(const string16& input,
    213                             StringPiece16 trim_chars,
    214                             string16* output);
    215 BASE_EXPORT bool TrimString(const std::string& input,
    216                             StringPiece trim_chars,
    217                             std::string* output);
    218 
    219 // StringPiece versions of the above. The returned pieces refer to the original
    220 // buffer.
    221 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece16 TrimString(StringPiece16 input,
    222                                      const StringPiece16& trim_chars,
    223                                      TrimPositions positions);
    224 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece TrimString(StringPiece input,
    225                                    const StringPiece& trim_chars,
    226                                    TrimPositions positions);
    227 
    228 // Truncates a string to the nearest UTF-8 character that will leave
    229 // the string less than or equal to the specified byte size.
    230 BASE_EXPORT void TruncateUTF8ToByteSize(const std::string& input,
    231                                         const size_t byte_size,
    232                                         std::string* output);
    233 
    234 // Trims any whitespace from either end of the input string.
    235 //
    236 // The StringPiece versions return a substring referencing the input buffer.
    237 // The ASCII versions look only for ASCII whitespace.
    238 //
    239 // The std::string versions return where whitespace was found.
    240 // NOTE: Safe to use the same variable for both input and output.
    241 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions TrimWhitespace(const string16& input,
    242                                          TrimPositions positions,
    243                                          string16* output);
    244 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece16 TrimWhitespace(StringPiece16 input,
    245                                          TrimPositions positions);
    246 BASE_EXPORT TrimPositions TrimWhitespaceASCII(const std::string& input,
    247                                               TrimPositions positions,
    248                                               std::string* output);
    249 BASE_EXPORT StringPiece TrimWhitespaceASCII(StringPiece input,
    250                                             TrimPositions positions);
    251 
    252 // Searches  for CR or LF characters.  Removes all contiguous whitespace
    253 // strings that contain them.  This is useful when trying to deal with text
    254 // copied from terminals.
    255 // Returns |text|, with the following three transformations:
    256 // (1) Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed.
    257 // (2) If |trim_sequences_with_line_breaks| is true, any other whitespace
    258 //     sequences containing a CR or LF are trimmed.
    259 // (3) All other whitespace sequences are converted to single spaces.
    260 BASE_EXPORT string16 CollapseWhitespace(
    261     const string16& text,
    262     bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks);
    263 BASE_EXPORT std::string CollapseWhitespaceASCII(
    264     const std::string& text,
    265     bool trim_sequences_with_line_breaks);
    266 
    267 // Returns true if |input| is empty or contains only characters found in
    268 // |characters|.
    269 BASE_EXPORT bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece& input,
    270                                    const StringPiece& characters);
    271 BASE_EXPORT bool ContainsOnlyChars(const StringPiece16& input,
    272                                    const StringPiece16& characters);
    273 
    274 // Returns true if the specified string matches the criteria. How can a wide
    275 // string be 8-bit or UTF8? It contains only characters that are < 256 (in the
    276 // first case) or characters that use only 8-bits and whose 8-bit
    277 // representation looks like a UTF-8 string (the second case).
    278 //
    279 // Note that IsStringUTF8 checks not only if the input is structurally
    280 // valid but also if it doesn't contain any non-character codepoint
    281 // (e.g. U+FFFE). It's done on purpose because all the existing callers want
    282 // to have the maximum 'discriminating' power from other encodings. If
    283 // there's a use case for just checking the structural validity, we have to
    284 // add a new function for that.
    285 //
    286 // IsStringASCII assumes the input is likely all ASCII, and does not leave early
    287 // if it is not the case.
    288 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringUTF8(const StringPiece& str);
    289 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const StringPiece& str);
    290 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const StringPiece16& str);
    291 // A convenience adaptor for WebStrings, as they don't convert into
    292 // StringPieces directly.
    293 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const string16& str);
    294 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
    295 BASE_EXPORT bool IsStringASCII(const std::wstring& str);
    296 #endif
    297 
    298 // Compare the lower-case form of the given string against the given
    299 // previously-lower-cased ASCII string (typically a constant).
    300 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(StringPiece str,
    301                                       StringPiece lowecase_ascii);
    302 BASE_EXPORT bool LowerCaseEqualsASCII(StringPiece16 str,
    303                                       StringPiece lowecase_ascii);
    304 
    305 // Performs a case-sensitive string compare of the given 16-bit string against
    306 // the given 8-bit ASCII string (typically a constant). The behavior is
    307 // undefined if the |ascii| string is not ASCII.
    308 BASE_EXPORT bool EqualsASCII(StringPiece16 str, StringPiece ascii);
    309 
    310 // Indicates case sensitivity of comparisons. Only ASCII case insensitivity
    311 // is supported. Full Unicode case-insensitive conversions would need to go in
    312 // base/i18n so it can use ICU.
    313 //
    314 // If you need to do Unicode-aware case-insensitive StartsWith/EndsWith, it's
    315 // best to call base::i18n::ToLower() or base::i18n::FoldCase() (see
    316 // base/i18n/case_conversion.h for usage advice) on the arguments, and then use
    317 // the results to a case-sensitive comparison.
    318 enum class CompareCase {
    319   SENSITIVE,
    320   INSENSITIVE_ASCII,
    321 };
    322 
    323 BASE_EXPORT bool StartsWith(StringPiece str,
    324                             StringPiece search_for,
    325                             CompareCase case_sensitivity);
    326 BASE_EXPORT bool StartsWith(StringPiece16 str,
    327                             StringPiece16 search_for,
    328                             CompareCase case_sensitivity);
    329 BASE_EXPORT bool EndsWith(StringPiece str,
    330                           StringPiece search_for,
    331                           CompareCase case_sensitivity);
    332 BASE_EXPORT bool EndsWith(StringPiece16 str,
    333                           StringPiece16 search_for,
    334                           CompareCase case_sensitivity);
    335 
    336 // Determines the type of ASCII character, independent of locale (the C
    337 // library versions will change based on locale).
    338 template <typename Char>
    339 inline bool IsAsciiWhitespace(Char c) {
    340   return c == ' ' || c == '\r' || c == '\n' || c == '\t';
    341 }
    342 template <typename Char>
    343 inline bool IsAsciiAlpha(Char c) {
    344   return ((c >= 'A') && (c <= 'Z')) || ((c >= 'a') && (c <= 'z'));
    345 }
    346 template <typename Char>
    347 inline bool IsAsciiDigit(Char c) {
    348   return c >= '0' && c <= '9';
    349 }
    350 
    351 template <typename Char>
    352 inline bool IsHexDigit(Char c) {
    353   return (c >= '0' && c <= '9') ||
    354          (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') ||
    355          (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f');
    356 }
    357 
    358 // Returns the integer corresponding to the given hex character. For example:
    359 //    '4' -> 4
    360 //    'a' -> 10
    361 //    'B' -> 11
    362 // Assumes the input is a valid hex character. DCHECKs in debug builds if not.
    363 BASE_EXPORT char HexDigitToInt(wchar_t c);
    364 
    365 // Returns true if it's a Unicode whitespace character.
    366 BASE_EXPORT bool IsUnicodeWhitespace(wchar_t c);
    367 
    368 // Return a byte string in human-readable format with a unit suffix. Not
    369 // appropriate for use in any UI; use of FormatBytes and friends in ui/base is
    370 // highly recommended instead. TODO(avi): Figure out how to get callers to use
    371 // FormatBytes instead; remove this.
    372 BASE_EXPORT string16 FormatBytesUnlocalized(int64_t bytes);
    373 
    374 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), replace the first instance of
    375 // |find_this| with |replace_with|.
    376 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
    377     base::string16* str,
    378     size_t start_offset,
    379     StringPiece16 find_this,
    380     StringPiece16 replace_with);
    381 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceFirstSubstringAfterOffset(
    382     std::string* str,
    383     size_t start_offset,
    384     StringPiece find_this,
    385     StringPiece replace_with);
    386 
    387 // Starting at |start_offset| (usually 0), look through |str| and replace all
    388 // instances of |find_this| with |replace_with|.
    389 //
    390 // This does entire substrings; use std::replace in <algorithm> for single
    391 // characters, for example:
    392 //   std::replace(str.begin(), str.end(), 'a', 'b');
    393 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
    394     string16* str,
    395     size_t start_offset,
    396     StringPiece16 find_this,
    397     StringPiece16 replace_with);
    398 BASE_EXPORT void ReplaceSubstringsAfterOffset(
    399     std::string* str,
    400     size_t start_offset,
    401     StringPiece find_this,
    402     StringPiece replace_with);
    403 
    404 // Reserves enough memory in |str| to accommodate |length_with_null| characters,
    405 // sets the size of |str| to |length_with_null - 1| characters, and returns a
    406 // pointer to the underlying contiguous array of characters.  This is typically
    407 // used when calling a function that writes results into a character array, but
    408 // the caller wants the data to be managed by a string-like object.  It is
    409 // convenient in that is can be used inline in the call, and fast in that it
    410 // avoids copying the results of the call from a char* into a string.
    411 //
    412 // |length_with_null| must be at least 2, since otherwise the underlying string
    413 // would have size 0, and trying to access &((*str)[0]) in that case can result
    414 // in a number of problems.
    415 //
    416 // Internally, this takes linear time because the resize() call 0-fills the
    417 // underlying array for potentially all
    418 // (|length_with_null - 1| * sizeof(string_type::value_type)) bytes.  Ideally we
    419 // could avoid this aspect of the resize() call, as we expect the caller to
    420 // immediately write over this memory, but there is no other way to set the size
    421 // of the string, and not doing that will mean people who access |str| rather
    422 // than str.c_str() will get back a string of whatever size |str| had on entry
    423 // to this function (probably 0).
    424 BASE_EXPORT char* WriteInto(std::string* str, size_t length_with_null);
    425 BASE_EXPORT char16* WriteInto(string16* str, size_t length_with_null);
    426 #ifndef OS_WIN
    427 BASE_EXPORT wchar_t* WriteInto(std::wstring* str, size_t length_with_null);
    428 #endif
    429 
    430 // Does the opposite of SplitString().
    431 BASE_EXPORT std::string JoinString(const std::vector<std::string>& parts,
    432                                    StringPiece separator);
    433 BASE_EXPORT string16 JoinString(const std::vector<string16>& parts,
    434                                 StringPiece16 separator);
    435 
    436 // Replace $1-$2-$3..$9 in the format string with |a|-|b|-|c|..|i| respectively.
    437 // Additionally, any number of consecutive '$' characters is replaced by that
    438 // number less one. Eg $$->$, $$$->$$, etc. The offsets parameter here can be
    439 // NULL. This only allows you to use up to nine replacements.
    440 BASE_EXPORT string16 ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
    441     const string16& format_string,
    442     const std::vector<string16>& subst,
    443     std::vector<size_t>* offsets);
    444 
    445 BASE_EXPORT std::string ReplaceStringPlaceholders(
    446     const StringPiece& format_string,
    447     const std::vector<std::string>& subst,
    448     std::vector<size_t>* offsets);
    449 
    450 // Single-string shortcut for ReplaceStringHolders. |offset| may be NULL.
    451 BASE_EXPORT string16 ReplaceStringPlaceholders(const string16& format_string,
    452                                                const string16& a,
    453                                                size_t* offset);
    454 
    455 }  // namespace base
    456 
    457 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    458 #include "base/strings/string_util_win.h"
    459 #elif defined(OS_POSIX)
    460 #include "base/strings/string_util_posix.h"
    461 #else
    462 #error Define string operations appropriately for your platform
    463 #endif
    464 
    465 #endif  // BASE_STRINGS_STRING_UTIL_H_
    466