labwc/include/common/string-helpers.h
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
#ifndef LABWC_STRING_HELPERS_H
#define LABWC_STRING_HELPERS_H
#include <stdbool.h>
/**
* string_null_or_empty() - Check if string is NULL or empty
* @s: string to check
*/
bool string_null_or_empty(const char *s);
/**
* trim_last_field() - Trim last field of string splitting on provided delim
* @buf: string to trim
* @delim: delimitator
*
* Example: With delim='_' and buf="foo_bar_baz" the return value is "foo_bar"
*/
void trim_last_field(char *buf, char delim);
/**
* string_strip - strip white space left and right
* Note: this function does a left skip, so the returning pointer cannot be
* used to free any allocated memory
*/
char *string_strip(char *s);
/**
* string_truncate_at_pattern - remove pattern and everything after it
* @buf: pointer to buffer
* @pattern: string to remove
*/
void string_truncate_at_pattern(char *buf, const char *pattern);
/**
* strdup_printf - allocate and write to buffer in printf format
* @fmt: printf-style format.
*
* Similar to the standard C sprintf() function but safer as it calculates the
* maximum space required and allocates memory to hold the output.
* The user must free the returned string.
* Returns NULL on error.
*/
char *strdup_printf(const char *fmt, ...);
/**
* str_join - format and join an array of strings with a separator
* @parts: NULL-terminated array of string parts to be joined
* @fmt: printf-style format string applied to each part
* @sep: separator inserted between parts when joining
*
* A new string is allocated to hold the joined result. The user must free the
* returned string. Returns NULL on error.
*
* Each part of the array is converted via the equivalent of sprintf(output,
* fmt, part), so fmt should include a single "%s" format specification. If fmt
* is NULL, a default "%s" will be used to copy each part verbatim.
*
* The separator is arbitrary. When the separator is NULL, a single space will
* be used.
*/
char *str_join(const char *const parts[],
const char *restrict fmt, const char *restrict sep);
/**
* str_endswith - indicate whether a string ends with a given suffix
* @string: string to test
* @suffix: suffix to expect in string
*
* If suffix is "" or NULL, this method always returns true; otherwise, this
* method returns true if and only if the full suffix exists at the end of the
* string.
*/
bool str_endswith(const char *const string, const char *const suffix);
/**
* str_starts_with - indicate whether a string starts with a given character
* @string: string to test
* @needle: character to expect in string
* @ignore_chars: characters to ignore at start such as space and "\t"
*/
bool str_starts_with(const char *s, char needle, const char *ignore_chars);
#endif /* LABWC_STRING_HELPERS_H */