This is the seventh post in my ongoing series covering the abstractions in Sasa. Previous posts:
- Sasa.Parsing - type-safe, extensible lexing and parsing framework
- Sasa.Dynamics - type-safe polytypic/reflective programming
- Sasa.Func - Type-Safe Delegate Combinators
- Sasa.Option - Handling Optional Values
- Sasa.Result - Handling Exceptional Values
- Sasa.Numbers - Generic Number Extensions
The Sasa.Strings static class provides a number of useful extension methods on System.String, including slicing, simple tokenizing, conversions and formatting. It is available in the core Sasa.dll.
Sasa.Strings.Format
Sasa.Strings.Format are extension methods that wrap System.String.Format:
Console.WriteLine("i = {0}".Format(1234567));
string invariant = "{0:#,##0.00}".Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
10000);
Console.WriteLine(invariant);
string de = "{0:#,##0.00}".Format(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-de"),
10000);
Console.WriteLine(de);
// output:
// i = 1234567
// 10,000.00
// 10.000,00
Sasa.Strings.FromBase64
Sasa.Strings.FromBase64 is a convenient extension method for converting a Base64 encoded string into an ordinary Unicode string, with an optional encoding parameter used to interpret the data:
string encoded = "foo bar".ToBase64(); // utf-8
Console.WriteLine(encoded);
string decoded = encoded.FromBase64(encoded);
Console.WriteLine(decoded);
Console.WriteLine(decoded.ToBase64("utf-16"));
// output:
// Zm9vIGJhcg==
// foo bar
// ZgBvAG8AIABiAGEAcgA=
Sasa.Strings.HardWrapAt
Sasa.Strings.HardWrapAt is a set of extension methods that insert new lines directly at the index specified in a function parameter, without regard to words or other considerations, and returns an enumerable sequence of lines:
string text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur";
foreach (var line in text.HardWrapAt(8))
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
// output:
// Lorem ip
// sum dolo
// r sit am
// et, cons
// ectetur
Sasa.Strings.IfNullOrempty
Sasa.Strings.IfNullOrEmpty are a set of overloaded extension methods that allow you to return a string or other type of input if the input string is null or empty:
string[] list = new string[] { null, "", "foo!" };
foreach(var x in list)
{
Console.WriteLine(x.IfNullOrEmpty("null or empty!"));
}
// output:
// null or empty!
// null or empty!
// foo!
The overload with the generic type parameter simply calls ToString() on its argument. It was added simply to avoid the overhead of calling ToString on the second argument before knowing whether the first string was empty:
string[] list = new string[] { null, "", "foo!" };
foreach(var x in list)
{
Console.WriteLine(x.IfNullOrEmpty(3.4));
}
// output:
// 3.4
// 3.4
// foo!
Sasa.Strings.IsNullOrEmpty
Sasa.Strings.IsNullOrEmpty is a convenient extension method that simply calls string.IsNullOrEmpty:
string[] list = new string[] { null, "", "foo!" };
foreach(var x in list)
{
if (!x.IsNullOrEmpty())
Console.WriteLine(x);
}
// output:
// foo!
Sasa.Strings.Lines
Sasa.Strings.Lines is an extension method that splits a string into a sequence of lines:
var lines = "foo\r\n \t bar\r\n\r\nend".Lines();
foreach (var x in lines)
{
Console.WriteLine(x);
}
// output:
// foo
// bar
// end
Sasa.Strings.Slice
Sasa.Strings.Slice is an extension method that complements string.Substring. Substring takes an index and the number of characters to extract, where Slice takes two indices:
string large = "This is a sample sentence."; string firstWord = large.Slice(0, 3); Console.WriteLine(firstWord); // output: // This
Sasa.Strings.SliceEqual
Sasa.Strings.SliceEquals takes an input string, an index, and a substring and checks whether the substring is in the input string at the given index:
string[] list = new string[] { "Flub", "Foo", "Baz_Foob", "Bar Foo!" };
foreach(var x in list)
{
Console.WriteLine(x.SliceEquals(4, "Foo"));
}
// output:
// false
// false
// true
// true
Sasa.Strings.Split
Sasa.Strings.Split is a set of extension method wrappers for System.String.Split that accept StringSplitOptions:
string var csv = "foo,comma,bar,,baz";
foreach (var x in csv.Split(StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries, ','))
{
Console.WriteLine(x);
}
// output:
// foo
// comma
// bar
// baz
The overloads take a variable length list of either characters or strings to use for splitting, basically reversing the order in the base class libraries for convenience.
Sasa.Strings.ToBase64
Sasa.Strings.ToBase64 is a convenient extension method for converting a Unicode string into a Base64 encoded string, using an optional text encoding parameter. If no encoding provided, UTF-8 is the default:
string encoded = "foo bar".ToBase64(); // utf-8
Console.WriteLine(encoded);
string decoded = encoded.FromBase64(encoded);
Console.WriteLine(decoded);
Console.WriteLine(decoded.ToBase64("utf-16"));
// output:
// Zm9vIGJhcg==
// foo bar
// ZgBvAG8AIABiAGEAcgA=
Sasa.Strings.Tokenize
Sasa.Strings.Tokenize is an extension method that searches an input string for a list of string tokens, and returns a sequence of token positions found in the string:
var operators = "4 + 5 - 6^2 == x".Tokenize("+", "-", "^", "==");
foreach (var x in operators)
{
Console.WriteLine("Found {0} at index {1}", x.Tok, x.Index);
}
// output:
// Found + at index 2
// Found - at index 6
// Found ^ at index 9
// Found == at index 12
Sasa.Strings.Words
Sasa.Strings.Words is an extension method that splits a string along whitespace boundaries:
string words = "foo bar\r\n\tbaz\rfoobar\nbarbaz".Words();
foreach (var x in words)
{
Console.WriteLine(x);
}
// output:
// foo
// bar
// baz
// foobar
// barbaz
Sasa.Strings.WordWrapAt
Sasa.Strings.HardWrapAt is an extension method that inserts newlines at the whitespace boundary nearest but less than the provided column parameter. In other words, contrary to Strings.HardWrapAt which inserts the newline at the specified index, this method searches back for the nearest whitespace boundary less than the column boundary:
string text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur";
foreach (var line in text.WordWrapAt(8))
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
// output:
// Lorem
// ipsum
// dolor
// sit
// amet,
// consectetur
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