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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

#include "apr.h"
#include "apr_errno.h"
#include "apr_pools.h"

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

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

/**
 * @package APR strings library
 */

/**
 * 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.
 * @deffunc int apr_strnatcmp(char const *a, char const *b)
 */
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.
 * @deffunc int apr_strnatcasecmp(char const *a, char const *b)
 */
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
 * @deffunc char *apr_pstrdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s)
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_pstrdup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s);

/**
 * duplicate the first n characters of a string into memory allocated 
 * out of a pool; the new string will be '\0'-terminated
 * @param p The pool to allocate out of
 * @param s The string to duplicate
 * @param n The number of characters to duplicate
 * @return The new string
 * @deffunc char *apr_pstrndup(apr_pool_t *p, const char *s, apr_size_t n)
 */
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
 * @deffunc void *apr_pmemdup(apr_pool_t *p, const void *m, apr_size_t n)
 */
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
 * @deffunc char *apr_pstrcat(apr_pool_t *p, ...)
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(char *) apr_pstrcat(apr_pool_t *p, ...);

/**
 * 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
 * @deffunc char *apr_pvsprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 */
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
 * @deffunc char *apr_psprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, ...)
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(char *) apr_psprintf(apr_pool_t *p, const char *fmt, ...)
        __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)));

/**
 * copy n characters from src to des>
 * @param dst The destination string
 * @param src The source string
 * @param dst_size The number of characters to copy
 * @tip  
 * <PRE>
 * We re-implement this function to implement these specific changes:
 *       1) strncpy() doesn't always null terminate and we want it to.
 *       2) strncpy() null fills, which is bogus, esp. when copy 8byte strings
 *          into 8k blocks.
 *       3) Instead of returning the pointer to the beginning of the
 *          destination string, we return a pointer to the terminating '\0'
 *          to allow us to check for truncation.
 * </PRE>
 * @deffunc char *apr_cpystrn(char *dst, const char *src, size_t dst_size)
 */
APR_DECLARE(char *) apr_cpystrn(char *dst, const char *src, size_t dst_size);

/**
 * Strip spaces 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.
 * @deffunc char *apr_collapse_spaces(char *dest, const char *src)
 */
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 term inated by a NULL
 * @param 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.
 * @deffunc apr_status_t apr_tokenize_to_argv(const char *arg_str, char ***argv_out, apr_pool_t *token_context);
 */
APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_tokenize_to_argv(const char *arg_str,
                                               char ***argv_out,
                                               apr_pool_t *token_context);

/*
 * 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 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.
 *
 * In no event does apr_snprintf return a negative number.  It's not possible
 * to distinguish between an output which was truncated, and an output which
 * exactly filled the buffer.
 */

/**
 * 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.
 * @deffunc int apr_snprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *format, ...)
 */
APR_DECLARE_NONSTD(int) apr_snprintf(char *buf, 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.
 * @deffunc int apr_vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *format, va_list ap)
 */
APR_DECLARE(int) apr_vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *format,
                               va_list ap);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif  /* !APR_STRINGS_H */