STRING(2) STRING(2)
NAME
string: append, drop, in, prefix, quoted, splitl, splitr,
splitstrl, splitstrr, take, tobig, toint, toreal, tolower,
toupper, unquoted - string operations
SYNOPSIS
include "string.m";
str := load String String->PATH;
append: fn(s: string, l: list of string): list of string;
drop: fn(s, cl: string): string;
in: fn(c: int, cl: string): int;
prefix: fn(pre, s: string): int;
splitl: fn(s, cl: string): (string, string);
splitr: fn(s, cl: string): (string, string);
replace: fn(in, s, with: string, max: int): string;
contains: fn(in, s: string): int;
splitstrl: fn(s, t: string): (string, string);
splitstrr: fn(s, t: string): (string, string);
take: fn(s, cl: string): string;
tobig: fn(s: string, base: int): (big, string);
toint: fn(s: string, base: int): (int, string);
toreal: fn(s: string, base: int): (real, string);
tolower: fn(s: string): string;
toupper: fn(s: string): string;
quoted: fn(args: list of string): string;
unquoted: fn(s: string): list of string;
DESCRIPTION
The cl argument to some of these functions is a character
class in which a - between any two characters indicates a
range and a ^ in the first position means not in the class.
Example of classes are "a-zA-Z" and "^acg-mr".
Append appends string s to the end of string list l.
Drop removes the maximal prefix of string s that is in class
cl.
In returns 1 if character c is in class cl and 0 if it is
not.
Prefix returns 1 if string pre is a prefix of string s and 0
if it is not.
Splitl splits string s just before the first character in
class cl.
Splitr splits string s just after the last character in
class cl.
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Splitstrl splits string s just before the leftmost segment
of string s that consists entirely of string t, and returns
a tuple with the resulting pair of strings. If t does not
occur in s, the result is (s,nil).
Splitstrr splits string s just after the rightmost segment
of string s that consists entirely of string t, and returns
a tuple with the resulting pair of strings. If t does not
occur in s, the result is (nil,s).
Replace returns the string in with up to max instances of s
removed and replaced by with. If max is less than 0, there
is no limit to the number of replacements. If max is 0 or s
is nil, the string in is returned unchanged.
Contains returns >0 if s is contained within in and ≤0 oth-
erwise.
Take returns the maximal prefix of string s that is in class
cl.
Toint returns as an integer the value represented by the
string s. The string is scanned up to the first character
inconsistent with base. The first inconsistent character
marks the beginning of the returned string. Leading white-
space characters are ignored. The base can be any integer
in the range 2 to 36, inclusive; or 0 in which case the base
can be specified as part of the string, in Limbo style (e.g.
16rffff).
Tobig has the same specification as toint except that con-
verts to 64-bit big.
Toreal is similar to toint, except that it expects a
floating-point number after optional leading white space: an
optional sign, then a string of digits containing a decimal
point, then an optional `e' or `E' followed by an optionally
signed decimal integer exponent. The string of digits can
optionally be preceded by a base (radix) specifier of the
form Br, as for integers. Any exponent is then interpreted
as a power of that base. Alternatively, following any lead-
ing white space and an optional sign, either nan or infinity
can appear, in any case, and toreal will return the appro-
priate value for IEEE floating-point.
Tolower converts all upper case letters in the string s to
lower case letters.
Toupper converts all lower case letters in the string s to
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upper case letters.
Quoted takes a list of strings, args, and returns a single
string with the value of each element of args separated from
the next by a single space. When forming the string, the
text of any element that contains white space or single
quotes is first quoted by surrounding it by single quotes
('...') within which each existing single quote is doubled
(''), following the conventions of sh(1).
Unquoted takes a string s, quoted according to the conven-
tions of quoted, and splits it into separate strings. It
splits the string at each maximal sequence of unquoted white
space (blank, newline or tab), stripping single quotes
except where paired, to form the corresponding list of
strings, which it returns.
SOURCE
/appl/lib/string.b
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