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18 /* -*- mode: c; c-file-style: "k&r" -*-
19 
20  strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
21  Copyright (C) 2000 by Martin Pool <mbp@humbug.org.au>
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39 
40 #ifndef APR_STRINGS_H
41 #define APR_STRINGS_H
42 
43 /**
44  * @file apr_strings.h
45  * @brief APR Strings library
46  */
47 
48 #include "apr.h"
49 #include "apr_errno.h"
50 #include "apr_pools.h"
51 #define APR_WANT_IOVEC
52 #include "apr_want.h"
53 
54 #if APR_HAVE_STDARG_H
55 #include <stdarg.h>
56 #endif
57 
58 #ifdef __cplusplus
59 extern "C" {
60 #endif /* __cplusplus */
61 
62 /**
63  * @defgroup apr_strings String routines
64  * @ingroup APR
65  * @{
66  */
67 
68 /**
69  * Do a natural order comparison of two strings.
70  * @param a The first string to compare
71  * @param b The second string to compare
72  * @return Either <0, 0, or >0. If the first string is less than the second
73  * this returns <0, if they are equivalent it returns 0, and if the
74  * first string is greater than second string it retuns >0.
75  */
76 APR_DECLARE(int) apr_strnatcmp(char const *a, char const *b);
77 
78 /**
79  * Do a natural order comparison of two strings ignoring the case of the
80  * strings.
81  * @param a The first string to compare
82  * @param b The second string to compare
83  * @return Either <0, 0, or >0. If the first string is less than the second
84  * this returns <0, if they are equivalent it returns 0, and if the
85  * first string is greater than second string it retuns >0.
86  */
87 APR_DECLARE(int) apr_strnatcasecmp(char const *a, char const *b);
88 
89 /**
90  * duplicate a string into memory allocated out of a pool
91  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
92  * @param s The string to duplicate
93  * @return The new string or NULL if s == NULL
94  */
95 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s);
96 
97 /**
98  * Create a null-terminated string by making a copy of a sequence
99  * of characters and appending a null byte
100  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
101  * @param s The block of characters to duplicate
102  * @param n The number of characters to duplicate
103  * @return The new string or NULL if s == NULL
104  * @remark This is a faster alternative to apr_pstrndup, for use
105  * when you know that the string being duplicated really
106  * has 'n' or more characters. If the string might contain
107  * fewer characters, use apr_pstrndup.
108  */
109 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n)
110 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4))
111  __attribute__((alloc_size(3)))
112 #endif
113  ;
114 
115 /**
116  * Duplicate at most n characters of a string into memory allocated
117  * out of a pool; the new string will be NUL-terminated
118  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
119  * @param s The string to duplicate
120  * @param n The maximum number of characters to duplicate
121  * @return The new string or NULL if s == NULL
122  * @remark The amount of memory allocated from the pool is the length
123  * of the returned string including the NUL terminator
124  */
125 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrndup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n);
126 
127 /**
128  * Duplicate a block of memory.
129  *
130  * @param p The pool to allocate from
131  * @param m The memory to duplicate
132  * @param n The number of bytes to duplicate
133  * @return The new block of memory or NULL if m == NULL
134  */
135 APR_DECLARE(void *) apr_pmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const void *m, apr_size_t n)
136 #if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4))
137  __attribute__((alloc_size(3)))
138 #endif
139  ;
140 
141 /**
142  * Concatenate multiple strings, allocating memory out a pool
143  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
144  * @param ... The strings to concatenate. The final string must be NULL
145  * @return The new string
146  */
148 #if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 4
149  __attribute__((sentinel))
150 #endif
151  ;
152 
153 /**
154  * Concatenate multiple strings specified in a writev-style vector
155  * @param p The pool from which to allocate
156  * @param vec The strings to concatenate
157  * @param nvec The number of strings to concatenate
158  * @param nbytes (output) strlen of new string (pass in NULL to omit)
159  * @return The new string
160  */
161 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrcatv(apr_pool_t *p, const struct iovec *vec,
162  apr_size_t nvec, apr_size_t *nbytes);
163 
164 /**
165  * printf-style style printing routine. The data is output to a string
166  * allocated from a pool
167  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
168  * @param fmt The format of the string
169  * @param ap The arguments to use while printing the data
170  * @return The new string
171  */
172 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pvsprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
173 
174 /**
175  * printf-style style printing routine. The data is output to a string
176  * allocated from a pool
177  * @param p The pool to allocate out of
178  * @param fmt The format of the string
179  * @param ... The arguments to use while printing the data
180  * @return The new string
181  */
182 APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(char *) apr_psprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, ...)
183  __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)));
184 
185 /**
186  * Copy up to dst_size characters from src to dst; does not copy
187  * past a NUL terminator in src, but always terminates dst with a NUL
188  * regardless.
189  * @param dst The destination string
190  * @param src The source string
191  * @param dst_size The space available in dst; dst always receives
192  * NUL termination, so if src is longer than
193  * dst_size, the actual number of characters copied is
194  * dst_size - 1.
195  * @return Pointer to the NUL terminator of the destination string, dst
196  * @remark
197  * <PRE>
198  * Note the differences between this function and strncpy():
199  * 1) strncpy() doesn't always NUL terminate; apr_cpystrn() does.
200  * 2) strncpy() pads the destination string with NULs, which is often
201  * unnecessary; apr_cpystrn() does not.
202  * 3) strncpy() returns a pointer to the beginning of the dst string;
203  * apr_cpystrn() returns a pointer to the NUL terminator of dst,
204  * to allow a check for truncation.
205  * </PRE>
206  */
207 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_cpystrn(char *dst, const char *src,
208  apr_size_t dst_size);
209 
210 /**
211  * Remove all whitespace from a string
212  * @param dest The destination string. It is okay to modify the string
213  * in place. Namely dest == src
214  * @param src The string to rid the spaces from.
215  * @return A pointer to the destination string's null terminator.
216  */
217 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_collapse_spaces(char *dest, const char *src);
218 
219 /**
220  * Convert the arguments to a program from one string to an array of
221  * strings terminated by a NULL pointer
222  * @param arg_str The arguments to convert
223  * @param argv_out Output location. This is a pointer to an array of strings.
224  * @param token_context Pool to use.
225  */
226 APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_tokenize_to_argv(const char *arg_str,
227  char ***argv_out,
228  apr_pool_t *token_context);
229 
230 /**
231  * Split a string into separate null-terminated tokens. The tokens are
232  * delimited in the string by one or more characters from the sep
233  * argument.
234  * @param str The string to separate; this should be specified on the
235  * first call to apr_strtok() for a given string, and NULL
236  * on subsequent calls.
237  * @param sep The set of delimiters
238  * @param last State saved by apr_strtok() between calls.
239  * @return The next token from the string
240  * @note the 'last' state points to the trailing NUL char of the final
241  * token, otherwise it points to the character following the current
242  * token (all successive or empty occurances of sep are skiped on the
243  * subsequent call to apr_strtok). Therefore it is possible to avoid
244  * a strlen() determination, with the following logic;
245  * toklen = last - retval; if (*last) --toklen;
246  */
247 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_strtok(char *str, const char *sep, char **last);
248 
249 /**
250  * @defgroup APR_Strings_Snprintf snprintf implementations
251  * @warning
252  * These are snprintf implementations based on apr_vformatter().
253  *
254  * Note that various standards and implementations disagree on the return
255  * value of snprintf, and side-effects due to %n in the formatting string.
256  * apr_snprintf (and apr_vsnprintf) behaves as follows:
257  *
258  * Process the format string until the entire string is exhausted, or
259  * the buffer fills. If the buffer fills then stop processing immediately
260  * (so no further %n arguments are processed), and return the buffer
261  * length. In all cases the buffer is NUL terminated. It will return the
262  * number of characters inserted into the buffer, not including the
263  * terminating NUL. As a special case, if len is 0, apr_snprintf will
264  * return the number of characters that would have been inserted if
265  * the buffer had been infinite (in this case, *buffer can be NULL)
266  *
267  * In no event does apr_snprintf return a negative number.
268  * @{
269  */
270 
271 /**
272  * snprintf routine based on apr_vformatter. This means it understands the
273  * same extensions.
274  * @param buf The buffer to write to
275  * @param len The size of the buffer
276  * @param format The format string
277  * @param ... The arguments to use to fill out the format string.
278  */
279 APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(int) apr_snprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len,
280  const char *format, ...)
281  __attribute__((format(printf,3,4)));
282 
283 /**
284  * vsnprintf routine based on apr_vformatter. This means it understands the
285  * same extensions.
286  * @param buf The buffer to write to
287  * @param len The size of the buffer
288  * @param format The format string
289  * @param ap The arguments to use to fill out the format string.
290  */
291 APR_DECLARE(int) apr_vsnprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len, const char *format,
292  va_list ap);
293 /** @} */
294 
295 /**
296  * create a string representation of an int, allocated from a pool
297  * @param p The pool from which to allocate
298  * @param n The number to format
299  * @return The string representation of the number
300  */
301 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_itoa(apr_pool_t *p, int n);
302 
303 /**
304  * create a string representation of a long, allocated from a pool
305  * @param p The pool from which to allocate
306  * @param n The number to format
307  * @return The string representation of the number
308  */
309 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_ltoa(apr_pool_t *p, long n);
310 
311 /**
312  * create a string representation of an apr_off_t, allocated from a pool
313  * @param p The pool from which to allocate
314  * @param n The number to format
315  * @return The string representation of the number
316  */
317 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_off_t_toa(apr_pool_t *p, apr_off_t n);
318 
319 /**
320  * Convert a numeric string into an apr_off_t numeric value.
321  * @param offset The value of the parsed string.
322  * @param buf The string to parse. It may contain optional whitespace,
323  * followed by an optional '+' (positive, default) or '-' (negative)
324  * character, followed by an optional '0x' prefix if base is 0 or 16,
325  * followed by numeric digits appropriate for base.
326  * @param end A pointer to the end of the valid character in buf. If
327  * not NULL, it is set to the first invalid character in buf.
328  * @param base A numeric base in the range between 2 and 36 inclusive,
329  * or 0. If base is zero, buf will be treated as base ten unless its
330  * digits are prefixed with '0x', in which case it will be treated as
331  * base 16.
332  * @bug *end breaks type safety; where *buf is const, *end needs to be
333  * declared as const in APR 2.0
334  */
335 APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_strtoff(apr_off_t *offset, const char *buf,
336  char **end, int base);
337 
338 /**
339  * parse a numeric string into a 64-bit numeric value
340  * @param buf The string to parse. It may contain optional whitespace,
341  * followed by an optional '+' (positive, default) or '-' (negative)
342  * character, followed by an optional '0x' prefix if base is 0 or 16,
343  * followed by numeric digits appropriate for base.
344  * @param end A pointer to the end of the valid character in buf. If
345  * not NULL, it is set to the first invalid character in buf.
346  * @param base A numeric base in the range between 2 and 36 inclusive,
347  * or 0. If base is zero, buf will be treated as base ten unless its
348  * digits are prefixed with '0x', in which case it will be treated as
349  * base 16.
350  * @return The numeric value of the string. On overflow, errno is set
351  * to ERANGE. On success, errno is set to 0.
352  */
353 APR_DECLARE(apr_int64_t) apr_strtoi64(const char *buf, char **end, int base);
354 
355 /**
356  * parse a base-10 numeric string into a 64-bit numeric value.
357  * Equivalent to apr_strtoi64(buf, (char**)NULL, 10).
358  * @param buf The string to parse
359  * @return The numeric value of the string. On overflow, errno is set
360  * to ERANGE. On success, errno is set to 0.
361  */
362 APR_DECLARE(apr_int64_t) apr_atoi64(const char *buf);
363 
364 /**
365  * Format a binary size (magnitiudes are 2^10 rather than 10^3) from an apr_off_t,
366  * as bytes, K, M, T, etc, to a four character compacted human readable string.
367  * @param size The size to format
368  * @param buf The 5 byte text buffer (counting the trailing null)
369  * @return The buf passed to apr_strfsize()
370  * @remark All negative sizes report ' - ', apr_strfsize only formats positive values.
371  */
372 APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_strfsize(apr_off_t size, char *buf);
373 
374 /** @} */
375 
376 #ifdef __cplusplus
377 }
378 #endif
379 
380 #endif /* !APR_STRINGS_H */
int apr_strnatcmp(char const *a, char const *b)
apr_int64_t apr_atoi64(const char *buf)
int apr_snprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len, const char *format,...)
char * apr_ltoa(apr_pool_t *p, long n)
int apr_strnatcasecmp(char const *a, char const *b)
APR Standard Headers Support.
void * apr_pmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const void *m, apr_size_t n)
char * apr_strtok(char *str, const char *sep, char **last)
char * apr_collapse_spaces(char *dest, const char *src)
apr_int64_t apr_strtoi64(const char *buf, char **end, int base)
char * apr_off_t_toa(apr_pool_t *p, apr_off_t n)
int apr_vsnprintf(char *buf, apr_size_t len, const char *format, va_list ap)
APR memory allocation.
apr_status_t apr_tokenize_to_argv(const char *arg_str, char ***argv_out, apr_pool_t *token_context)
char * apr_pvsprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
char * apr_psprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt,...)
char * apr_pstrndup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n)
APR Error Codes.
#define APR_DECLARE(type)
Definition: apr.h:500
APR Platform Definitions.
char * apr_strfsize(apr_off_t size, char *buf)
char * apr_pstrcatv(apr_pool_t *p, const struct iovec *vec, apr_size_t nvec, apr_size_t *nbytes)
char * apr_pstrmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n)
char * apr_itoa(apr_pool_t *p, int n)
char * apr_pstrcat(apr_pool_t *p,...)
char * apr_pstrdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s)
#define APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(type)
Definition: apr.h:513
struct apr_pool_t apr_pool_t
Definition: apr_pools.h:60
int apr_status_t
Definition: apr_errno.h:44
char * apr_cpystrn(char *dst, const char *src, apr_size_t dst_size)
apr_status_t apr_strtoff(apr_off_t *offset, const char *buf, char **end, int base)