--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- String module for gears -- -- @module gears.string --------------------------------------------------------------------------- local gstring = {} local xml_entity_names = { ["'"] = "'", ["\""] = """, ["<"] = "<", [">"] = ">", ["&"] = "&" }; --- Escape a string from XML char. -- Useful to set raw text in textbox. -- @class function -- @name escape -- @param text Text to escape. -- @return Escape text. function gstring.xml_escape(text) return text and text:gsub("['&<>\"]", xml_entity_names) or nil end local xml_entity_chars = { lt = "<", gt = ">", nbsp = " ", quot = "\"", apos = "'", ndash = "-", mdash = "-", amp = "&" }; --- Unescape a string from entities. -- @class function -- @name unescape -- @param text Text to unescape. -- @return Unescaped text. function gstring.xml_unescape(text) return text and text:gsub("&(%a+);", xml_entity_chars) or nil end --- Count number of lines in a string -- @class function -- @name linecount -- @tparam string text Input string. -- @treturn int Number of lines. function gstring.linecount(text) return select(2, text:gsub('\n', '\n')) + 1 end --- Split a string into multiple lines -- @class function -- @name linewrap -- @param text String to wrap. -- @param width Maximum length of each line. Default: 72. -- @param indent Number of spaces added before each wrapped line. Default: 0. -- @return The string with lines wrapped to width. function gstring.linewrap(text, width, indent) text = text or "" width = width or 72 indent = indent or 0 local pos = 1 return text:gsub("(%s+)()(%S+)()", function(_, st, word, fi) if fi - pos > width then pos = st return "\n" .. string.rep(" ", indent) .. word end end) end --- Escape all special pattern-matching characters so that lua interprets them -- literally instead of as a character class. -- Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20778724/15690 -- @class function -- @name quote_pattern function gstring.quote_pattern(s) -- All special characters escaped in a string: %%, %^, %$, ... local patternchars = '['..("%^$().[]*+-?"):gsub("(.)", "%%%1")..']' return string.gsub(s, patternchars, "%%%1") end --- Generate a pattern matching expression that ignores case. -- @param s Original pattern matching expression. -- @class function -- @name query_to_pattern function gstring.query_to_pattern(q) local s = gstring.quote_pattern(q) -- Poor man's case-insensitive character matching. s = string.gsub(s, "%a", function (c) return string.format("[%s%s]", string.lower(c), string.upper(c)) end) return s end --- Split separates a string containing a delimiter into the list of -- substrings between that delimiter. -- @class function -- @name split -- @tparam string str String to be splitted -- @tparam string delimiter Character where the string will be splitted -- @treturn table list of the substrings function gstring.split(str, delimiter) local pattern = "(.-)" .. delimiter .. "()" local result = {} local n = 0 local lastPos = 0 for part, pos in string.gmatch(str, pattern) do n = n + 1 result[n] = part lastPos = pos end result[n + 1] = string.sub(str, lastPos) return result end --- Check if a string starts with another string -- @class function -- @name startswith -- @tparam string str String to search -- @tparam string sub String to check for function gstring.startswith(str, sub) return string.sub(str, 1, string.len(sub)) == sub end --- Check if a string ends with another string -- @class function -- @name endswith -- @tparam string str String to search -- @tparam string sub String to check for function gstring.endswith(str, sub) return sub == "" or string.sub(str,-string.len(sub)) == sub end return gstring