apr/include/apr_strings.h

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/* -*- mode: c; c-file-style: "k&r" -*-

  strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
  Copyright (C) 2000 by Martin Pool <mbp@humbug.org.au>

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#ifndef APR_STRINGS_H
#define APR_STRINGS_H

/**
 * @file apr_strings.h
 * @brief APR Strings library
 */

#include "apr.h"
#include "apr_errno.h"
#include "apr_pools.h"
#define APR_WANT_IOVEC
#include "apr_want.h"

#if APR_HAVE_STDARG_H
#include <stdarg.h>
#endif

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif /* __cplusplus */

/**
 * @defgroup apr_strings String routines
 * @ingroup APR
 * @{
 */

/**
 * Do a natural order comparison of two strings.
 * @param a The first string to compare
 * @param b The second string to compare
 * @return Either <0, 0, or >0.  If the first string is less than the second
 *          this returns <0, if they are equivalent it returns 0, and if the
 *          first string is greater than second string it retuns >0.
 */
APR_DECLARE(int) apr_strnatcmp(char const *a, char const *b);

/**
 * Do a natural order comparison of two strings ignoring the case of the
 * strings.
 * @param a The first string to compare
 * @param b The second string to compare
 * @return Either <0, 0, or >0.  If the first string is less than the second
 *         this returns <0, if they are equivalent it returns 0, and if the
 *         first string is greater than second string it retuns >0.
 */
APR_DECLARE(int) apr_strnatcasecmp(char const *a, char const *b);

/**
 * duplicate a string into memory allocated out of a pool
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param s The string to duplicate
 * @return The new string
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s);

/**
 * Create a null-terminated string by making a copy of a sequence
 * of characters and appending a null byte
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param s The block of characters to duplicate
 * @param n The number of characters to duplicate
 * @return The new string
 * @remark This is a faster alternative to apr_pstrndup, for use
 *         when you know that the string being duplicated really
 *         has 'n' or more characters.  If the string might contain
 *         fewer characters, use apr_pstrndup.
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n);

/**
 * Duplicate at most n characters of a string into memory allocated
 * out of a pool; the new string will be NUL-terminated
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param s The string to duplicate
 * @param n The maximum number of characters to duplicate
 * @return The new string
 * @remark The amount of memory allocated from the pool is the length
 *         of the returned string including the NUL terminator
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrndup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n);

/**
 * Duplicate a block of memory.
 *
 * @param p The pool to allocate from
 * @param m The memory to duplicate
 * @param n The number of bytes to duplicate
 * @return The new block of memory
 */
APR_DECLARE(void *) apr_pmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const void *m, apr_size_t n);

/**
 * Concatenate multiple strings, allocating memory out a pool
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param ... The strings to concatenate.  The final string must be NULL
 * @return The new string
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(char *) apr_pstrcat(apr_pool_t *p, ...)
#if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 4
    __attribute__((sentinel))
#endif
    ;

/**
 * Concatenate multiple strings specified in a writev-style vector
 * @param p The pool from which to allocate
 * @param vec The strings to concatenate
 * @param nvec The number of strings to concatenate
 * @param nbytes (output) strlen of new string (pass in NULL to omit)
 * @return The new string
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrcatv(apr_pool_t *p, const struct iovec *vec,
                                 apr_size_t nvec, apr_size_t *nbytes);

/**
 * printf-style style printing routine.  The data is output to a string
 * allocated from a pool
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param fmt The format of the string
 * @param ap The arguments to use while printing the data
 * @return The new string
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pvsprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, va_list ap);

/**
 * printf-style style printing routine.  The data is output to a string
 * allocated from a pool
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param fmt The format of the string
 * @param ... The arguments to use while printing the data
 * @return The new string
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(char *) apr_psprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, ...)
        __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)));

/**
 * Copy up to dst_size characters from src to dst; does not copy
 * past a NUL terminator in src, but always terminates dst with a NUL
 * regardless.
 * @param dst The destination string
 * @param src The source string
 * @param dst_size The space available in dst; dst always receives
 *                 NUL termination, so if src is longer than
 *                 dst_size, the actual number of characters copied is
 *                 dst_size - 1.
 * @return Pointer to the NUL terminator of the destination string, dst
 * @remark
 * <PRE>
 * Note the differences between this function and strncpy():
 *  1) strncpy() doesn't always NUL terminate; apr_cpystrn() does.
 *  2) strncpy() pads the destination string with NULs, which is often
 *     unnecessary; apr_cpystrn() does not.
 *  3) strncpy() returns a pointer to the beginning of the dst string;
 *     apr_cpystrn() returns a pointer to the NUL terminator of dst,
 *     to allow a check for truncation.
 * </PRE>
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_cpystrn(char *dst, const char *src,
                                apr_size_t dst_size);

/**
 * Remove all whitespace from a string
 * @param dest The destination string.  It is okay to modify the string
 *             in place.  Namely dest == src
 * @param src The string to rid the spaces from.
 * @return A pointer to the destination string's null terminator.
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_collapse_spaces(char *dest, const char *src);

/**
 * Convert the arguments to a program from one string to an array of
 * strings terminated by a NULL pointer
 * @param arg_str The arguments to convert
 * @param argv_out Output location.  This is a pointer to an array of strings.
 * @param token_context Pool to use.
 */
APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_tokenize_to_argv(const char *arg_str,
                                               char ***argv_out,
                                               apr_pool_t *token_context);

/**
 * Split a string into separate null-terminated tokens.  The tokens are
 * delimited in the string by one or more characters from the sep
 * argument.
 * @param str The string to separate; this should be specified on the
 *            first call to apr_strtok() for a given string, and NULL
 *            on subsequent calls.
 * @param sep The set of delimiters
 * @param last Internal state saved by apr_strtok() between calls.
 * @return The next token from the string
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_strtok(char *str, const char *sep, char **last);

/**
 * @defgroup APR_Strings_Snprintf snprintf implementations
 * @warning
 * These are snprintf implementations based on apr_vformatter().
 *
 * Note that various standards and implementations disagree on the return
 * value of snprintf, and side-effects due to %n in the formatting string.
 * apr_snprintf (and apr_vsnprintf) behaves as follows:
 *
 * Process the format string until the entire string is exhausted, or
 * the buffer fills.  If the buffer fills then stop processing immediately
 * (so no further %n arguments are processed), and return the buffer
 * length.  In all cases the buffer is NUL terminated. It will return the
 * number of characters inserted into the buffer, not including the
 * terminating NUL. As a special case, if len is 0, apr_snprintf will
 * return the number of characters that would have been inserted if
 * the buffer had been infinite (in this case, *buffer can be NULL)
 *
 * In no event does apr_snprintf return a negative number.
 * @{
 */

/**
 * snprintf routine based on apr_vformatter.  This means it understands the
 * same extensions.
 * @param buf The buffer to write to
 * @param len The size of the buffer
 * @param format The format string
 * @param ... The arguments to use to fill out the format string.
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(int) apr_snprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len,
                                     const char *format, ...)
        __attribute__((format(printf,3,4)));

/**
 * vsnprintf routine based on apr_vformatter.  This means it understands the
 * same extensions.
 * @param buf The buffer to write to
 * @param len The size of the buffer
 * @param format The format string
 * @param ap The arguments to use to fill out the format string.
 */
APR_DECLARE(int) apr_vsnprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len, const char *format,
                               va_list ap);
/** @} */

/**
 * create a string representation of an int, allocated from a pool
 * @param p The pool from which to allocate
 * @param n The number to format
 * @return The string representation of the number
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_itoa(apr_pool_t *p, int n);

/**
 * create a string representation of a long, allocated from a pool
 * @param p The pool from which to allocate
 * @param n The number to format
 * @return The string representation of the number
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_ltoa(apr_pool_t *p, long n);

/**
 * create a string representation of an apr_off_t, allocated from a pool
 * @param p The pool from which to allocate
 * @param n The number to format
 * @return The string representation of the number
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_off_t_toa(apr_pool_t *p, apr_off_t n);

/**
 * Convert a numeric string into an apr_off_t numeric value.
 * @param offset The value of the parsed string.
 * @param buf The string to parse. It may contain optional whitespace,
 *   followed by an optional '+' (positive, default) or '-' (negative)
 *   character, followed by an optional '0x' prefix if base is 0 or 16,
 *   followed by numeric digits appropriate for base.
 * @param end A pointer to the end of the valid character in buf. If
 *   not NULL, it is set to the first invalid character in buf.
 * @param base A numeric base in the range between 2 and 36 inclusive,
 *   or 0.  If base is zero, buf will be treated as base ten unless its
 *   digits are prefixed with '0x', in which case it will be treated as
 *   base 16.
 * @bug *end breaks type safety; where *buf is const, *end needs to be
 * declared as const in APR 2.0
 */
APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_strtoff(apr_off_t *offset, const char *buf,
                                      char **end, int base);

/**
 * parse a numeric string into a 64-bit numeric value
 * @param buf The string to parse. It may contain optional whitespace,
 *   followed by an optional '+' (positive, default) or '-' (negative)
 *   character, followed by an optional '0x' prefix if base is 0 or 16,
 *   followed by numeric digits appropriate for base.
 * @param end A pointer to the end of the valid character in buf. If
 *   not NULL, it is set to the first invalid character in buf.
 * @param base A numeric base in the range between 2 and 36 inclusive,
 *   or 0.  If base is zero, buf will be treated as base ten unless its
 *   digits are prefixed with '0x', in which case it will be treated as
 *   base 16.
 * @return The numeric value of the string.  On overflow, errno is set
 * to ERANGE.  On success, errno is set to 0.
 */
APR_DECLARE(apr_int64_t) apr_strtoi64(const char *buf, char **end, int base);

/**
 * parse a base-10 numeric string into a 64-bit numeric value.
 * Equivalent to apr_strtoi64(buf, (char**)NULL, 10).
 * @param buf The string to parse
 * @return The numeric value of the string.  On overflow, errno is set
 * to ERANGE.  On success, errno is set to 0.
 */
APR_DECLARE(apr_int64_t) apr_atoi64(const char *buf);

/**
 * Format a binary size (magnitiudes are 2^10 rather than 10^3) from an apr_off_t,
 * as bytes, K, M, T, etc, to a four character compacted human readable string.
 * @param size The size to format
 * @param buf The 5 byte text buffer (counting the trailing null)
 * @return The buf passed to apr_strfsize()
 * @remark All negative sizes report '  - ', apr_strfsize only formats positive values.
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_strfsize(apr_off_t size, char *buf);

/** @} */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif  /* !APR_STRINGS_H */