/* String manipulation functions. */ let lib = import ./default.nix; inherit (builtins) length; in rec { inherit (builtins) stringLength substring head tail isString replaceStrings; # Concatenate a list of strings. concatStrings = if builtins ? concatStringsSep then builtins.concatStringsSep "" else lib.foldl' (x: y: x + y) ""; # Map a function over a list and concatenate the resulting strings. concatMapStrings = f: list: concatStrings (map f list); concatImapStrings = f: list: concatStrings (lib.imap f list); # Place an element between each element of a list, e.g., # `intersperse "," ["a" "b" "c"]' returns ["a" "," "b" "," "c"]. intersperse = separator: list: if list == [] || length list == 1 then list else [(head list) separator] ++ (intersperse separator (tail list)); # Concatenate a list of strings with a separator between each element, e.g. # concatStringsSep " " ["foo" "bar" "xyzzy"] == "foo bar xyzzy" concatStringsSep = builtins.concatStringsSep or (separator: list: concatStrings (intersperse separator list)); concatMapStringsSep = sep: f: list: concatStringsSep sep (map f list); concatImapStringsSep = sep: f: list: concatStringsSep sep (lib.imap f list); # Construct a Unix-style search path consisting of each `subDir" # directory of the given list of packages. For example, # `makeSearchPath "bin" ["x" "y" "z"]' returns "x/bin:y/bin:z/bin". makeSearchPath = subDir: packages: concatStringsSep ":" (map (path: path + "/" + subDir) packages); # Construct a library search path (such as RPATH) containing the # libraries for a set of packages, e.g. "${pkg1}/lib:${pkg2}/lib:...". makeLibraryPath = makeSearchPath "lib"; # Idem for Perl search paths. makePerlPath = makeSearchPath "lib/perl5/site_perl"; # Dependening on the boolean `cond', return either the given string # or the empty string. optionalString = cond: string: if cond then string else ""; # Determine whether a string has given prefix/suffix. hasPrefix = pref: str: eqStrings (substring 0 (stringLength pref) str) pref; hasSuffix = suff: str: let lenStr = stringLength str; lenSuff = stringLength suff; in lenStr >= lenSuff && eqStrings (substring (lenStr - lenSuff) lenStr str) suff; # Convert a string to a list of characters (i.e. singleton strings). # For instance, "abc" becomes ["a" "b" "c"]. This allows you to, # e.g., map a function over each character. However, note that this # will likely be horribly inefficient; Nix is not a general purpose # programming language. Complex string manipulations should, if # appropriate, be done in a derivation. stringToCharacters = s: map (p: substring p 1 s) (lib.range 0 (stringLength s - 1)); # Manipulate a string charactter by character and replace them by # strings before concatenating the results. stringAsChars = f: s: concatStrings ( map f (stringToCharacters s) ); # Escape occurrence of the elements of ‘list’ in ‘string’ by # prefixing it with a backslash. For example, ‘escape ["(" ")"] # "(foo)"’ returns the string ‘\(foo\)’. escape = list: replaceChars list (map (c: "\\${c}") list); # Escape all characters that have special meaning in the Bourne shell. escapeShellArg = lib.escape (stringToCharacters "\\ ';$`()|<>\t*[]"); # replace characters by their substitutes. This function is equivalent to # the `tr' command except that one character can be replace by multiple # ones. e.g., # replaceChars ["<" ">"] ["<" ">"] "" returns "<foo>". replaceChars = builtins.replaceStrings or ( del: new: s: let substList = lib.zipLists del new; subst = c: let found = lib.findFirst (sub: sub.fst == c) null substList; in if found == null then c else found.snd; in stringAsChars subst s); # Case conversion utilities. lowerChars = stringToCharacters "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; upperChars = stringToCharacters "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; toLower = replaceChars upperChars lowerChars; toUpper = replaceChars lowerChars upperChars; # Appends string context from another string. addContextFrom = a: b: substring 0 0 a + b; # Compares strings not requiring context equality # Obviously, a workaround but works on all Nix versions. eqStrings = a: b: addContextFrom b a == addContextFrom a b; # Cut a string with a separator and produces a list of strings which were # separated by this separator. e.g., # `splitString "." "foo.bar.baz"' returns ["foo" "bar" "baz"]. splitString = _sep: _s: let sep = addContextFrom _s _sep; s = addContextFrom _sep _s; sepLen = stringLength sep; sLen = stringLength s; lastSearch = sLen - sepLen; startWithSep = startAt: substring startAt sepLen s == sep; recurse = index: startAt: let cutUntil = i: [(substring startAt (i - startAt) s)]; in if index < lastSearch then if startWithSep index then let restartAt = index + sepLen; in cutUntil index ++ recurse restartAt restartAt else recurse (index + 1) startAt else cutUntil sLen; in recurse 0 0; # return the suffix of the second argument if the first argument match its # prefix. e.g., # `removePrefix "foo." "foo.bar.baz"' returns "bar.baz". removePrefix = pre: s: let preLen = stringLength pre; sLen = stringLength s; in if hasPrefix pre s then substring preLen (sLen - preLen) s else s; removeSuffix = suf: s: let sufLen = stringLength suf; sLen = stringLength s; in if sufLen <= sLen && eqStrings suf (substring (sLen - sufLen) sufLen s) then substring 0 (sLen - sufLen) s else s; # Return true iff string v1 denotes a version older than v2. versionOlder = v1: v2: builtins.compareVersions v2 v1 == 1; # Return true iff string v1 denotes a version equal to or newer than v2. versionAtLeast = v1: v2: !versionOlder v1 v2; # Get the version of the specified derivation, as specified in its # ‘name’ attribute. getVersion = drv: (builtins.parseDrvName drv.name).version; # Extract name with version from URL. Ask for separator which is # supposed to start extension nameFromURL = url: sep: let components = splitString "/" url; filename = lib.last components; name = builtins.head (splitString sep filename); in assert ! eqStrings name filename; name; # Create an --{enable,disable}- string that can be passed to # standard GNU Autoconf scripts. enableFeature = enable: feat: "--${if enable then "enable" else "disable"}-${feat}"; # Create a fixed width string with additional prefix to match required width fixedWidthString = width: filler: str: let strw = lib.stringLength str; reqWidth = width - (lib.stringLength filler); in assert strw <= width; if strw == width then str else filler + fixedWidthString reqWidth filler str; # Format a number adding leading zeroes up to fixed width fixedWidthNumber = width: n: fixedWidthString width "0" (toString n); }