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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 10868] New: std.string.translate should take an optional buffer

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           Summary: std.string.translate should take an optional buffer
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com
        ReportedBy: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com



18:46:42 PDT ---
translate is useful for interfacing with other languages that require special
string literal escaping rules (e.g. Tcl), however these escaped strings
themselves typically have to be wrapped in some outer block.

Currently translate doesn't allow a user-provided buffer, leading to writing
inefficient code like this:

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import std.array;
import std.string;

void main()
{
    string[dchar] table = ['{' : `\{`, '}' : `\}`];
    string input = `{ foobar }`;

    // multiple allocation
    auto res = format(`"%s"`, input.translate(table));

    assert(res == `"\{ foobar \}"`);
}
-----

A more efficient approach is to allow passing a custom buffer to translate:

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import std.array;
import std.string;

void main()
{
    string[dchar] table = ['{' : `\{`, '}' : `\}`];
    auto buffer = appender!(dchar[])();

    buffer ~= '{';
    string input = `{ foobar }`;
    input.translate(table, null, buffer);
    buffer ~= '}';
    assert(buffer.data == `"\{ foobar \}"`);
}
-----

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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> changed:

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PDT ---
I think that we should move towards having pretty much any Phobos function
which allocates an array (including strings) have an overload which takes an
output range to write to instead. However, we should probably make sure that
output ranges are appropriately ironed out before we do that heavily (e.g. we
really need to have a clear way of asking whether an output range is full).
Input ranges are used heavily, but output ranges have had much less attention
and may need additional work before they're used that heavily.

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18:59:39 PDT ---

 I think that we should move towards having pretty much any Phobos function
 which allocates an array (including strings) have an overload which takes an
 output range to write to instead. However, we should probably make sure that
 output ranges are appropriately ironed out before we do that heavily (e.g. we
 really need to have a clear way of asking whether an output range is full).
 Input ranges are used heavily, but output ranges have had much less attention
 and may need additional work before they're used that heavily.
Hmm, is there any way this .full check can be added later once the output range API is finalized? For now if .put works on the buffer I think we're ok, since most buffers are likely created with appender(). If it's not in the NG already, could you bring this OutputRange topic up? We've already made a promise to make Phobos more memory-friendly (one way is providing an optional buffer), but not much has happened since the end of DConf. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
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PDT ---
IIRC, it's come up before (with the digest stuff? - I know the issue of a
function to "finish" came up for that), but I don't recall any resolution of
it. I believe that with regards to arrays at least, if you use them as an
output range, you can check for full by checking that length != 0, and length
effectively ends up giving you how much left you can write to, but even if that
holds in general, not all ranges can tell you how much they can be written to
them as opposed to whether they're full, which IIRC led to discussions of the
case where you try and put more elements than can fit at once (e.g. if you have
1 char left in a char[] and try and put a character takes up 3 code units), and
that almost requires that you end up throwing in put in some cases rather than
being able to check for space ahead of time, which is problematic (though maybe
put could be changed to return whether it succeeded in order to deal with the
case where you might be able to put more than it could fit and can't check
first).

In any case, it obviously gets a bit nasty, and we probably should discuss it
again. I'll try and organize my thoughts on it a bit and create another thread
on the topic, since we do need to iron out these issues if we want to use
output ranges heavily (which we should be moving to at least as an overload for
many/most functions which allocate). Output ranges have suffered from a lack of
attention and probably should have been discussed more or thought through more
before being added. But at least output ranges are used enough less than input
ranges that it's probably nowhere near as big a deal to break their API if we
have to (especially if at least some of the missing functions can be given
generic versions via UFCS).

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Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> changed:

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07:38:06 PDT ---
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1501

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 I think that we should move towards having pretty much any Phobos function
 which allocates an array (including strings) have an overload which takes an
 output range to write to instead. However, we should probably make sure that
 output ranges are appropriately ironed out before we do that heavily (e.g. we
 really need to have a clear way of asking whether an output range is full).
 Input ranges are used heavily, but output ranges have had much less attention
 and may need additional work before they're used that heavily.
Monarch's https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1439 improves the Output Range situation quite a bit. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
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 IIRC, it's come up before (with the digest stuff? - I know the issue of a
 function to "finish" came up for that), but I don't recall any resolution of
 it.
I remember having brought up the subject a few times before. It never gets discussed a whole lot though. The latest is here: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gqsfiatbhdqwcptkoqua forum.dlang.org
 I believe that with regards to arrays at least, if you use them as an
 output range, you can check for full by checking that length != 0, and length
 effectively ends up giving you how much left you can write to, but even if that
 holds in general, not all ranges can tell you how much they can be written to
 them as opposed to whether they're full, which IIRC led to discussions of the
 case where you try and put more elements than can fit at once (e.g. if you have
 1 char left in a char[] and try and put a character takes up 3 code units), and
 that almost requires that you end up throwing in put in some cases rather than
 being able to check for space ahead of time, which is problematic (though maybe
 put could be changed to return whether it succeeded in order to deal with the
 case where you might be able to put more than it could fit and can't check
 first).
There are simpler fail cases than that, since an output range can accept ranges of elements itself. Meaning you can do: int[] a = [0, 0]; a.put([1, 2, 3]); So as you did mention, basically, the problem is that even if the range is not full, that doesn't guarantee that what you want to cram into it will fit. I think going the *sformat* road might be simplest? It is *strongly* recommended to use an infinite sink when an output range is passed. You are free to use some sort of finite storage, but if it empties out, then it's error. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
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Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/5ec5c213b0b47eeccfa9a335da362a29cb1e0fdf
Fixes Issue 10868 - std.string.translate should have an overload that takes an
output buffer.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/d6b8a21157caec2025ce70bfa259c4c912a969b7


Issue 10868 - std.string.translate should have an overload that takes an output
buffer.

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         Resolution|                            |FIXED


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