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| author | Tyge Lovset <[email protected]> | 2023-08-17 05:34:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Tyge Lovset <[email protected]> | 2023-08-17 05:34:38 +0200 |
| commit | be0e64a9a19d3ca459284c61c497d141a78df1d7 (patch) | |
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Renamed "internal" csview member .str => .buf, as it is not null terminated like crawstr .str member.
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diff --git a/docs/csview_api.md b/docs/csview_api.md index eafc6854..5202d6f5 100644 --- a/docs/csview_api.md +++ b/docs/csview_api.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ # STC [csview](../include/stc/csview.h): Sub-string View  -The type **csview** is a non-null terminated string view and can refer to a constant contiguous sequence of -char-elements with the first element of the sequence at position zero. The implementation holds two members: -a pointer to constant char and a size. +The type **csview** is a non-null terminated string view and can refer to a constant contiguous +sequence of char-elements with the first element of the sequence at position zero. The implementation +holds two members: a pointer to constant char and a size. -Because **csview** is non-null terminated, it is not an ideal replacent view for `const char*` - see [crawstr](crawstr_api.md) -for that. **csview** never allocates memory, and therefore need not be destructed. Its lifetime is limited by -the source string storage. It keeps the length of the string, and does not need to call *strlen()* to acquire -the length. +Because **csview** is non-null terminated, it cannot be a replacent view for `const char*` - +see [crawstr](crawstr_api.md) for that. **csview** never allocates memory, and therefore need not be +destructed. Its lifetime is limited by the source string storage. It keeps the length of the string, +and does not need to call *strlen()* to acquire the length. - **csview** iterators works on UTF8 codepoints - like **cstr** and **crawstr** (see Example 2). - Because it is null-terminated, it must be printed the following way: @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ the length. printf("%.*s", c_SV(sstr)); ``` -See the c++ class [std::basic_string_view](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view) for a functional -description. +See the c++ class [std::basic_string_view](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view) +for a functional description. ## Header file @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ uint64_t csview_hash(const csview* x); | Type name | Type definition | Used to represent... | |:----------------|:-------------------------------------------|:-------------------------| -| `csview` | `struct { const char *str; intptr_t size; }` | The string view type | +| `csview` | `struct { const char *buf; intptr_t size; }` | The string view type | | `csview_value` | `char` | The string element type | | `csview_iter` | `struct { csview_value *ref; }` | UTF8 iterator | |
