### String::Escape - Registry of string functions, including backslash escapes ### Copyright 1997, 1998 Evolution Online Systems, Inc. # You may use this software for free under the terms of the Artistic License ### Change History # 1998-12-04 Folded String::Excerpt's elide() function into this module. # 1998-09-19 Updated POD docs a bit. # 1998-09-19 Support for function and array references in expand_escape_spec. # 1998-09-01 Fixed return value from expand_escape_spec. # 1998-07-31 Rewrote (un)qprintable to just call other functions in order. # 1998-07-30 Expanded POD to cover use of new Makefile.PL. # 1998-07-23 Combined word-boundary and non-word-boundary elide functions. # 1998-07-23 Conventionalized POD, switched to yyyy.mm_dd version numbering. # 1998-06-11 Modified printable and unprintable algorithms to use hash map. # 1998-04-27 Anchored regexes in unprintable() to fix backslash mangling. # 1998-03-16 Avoid constant modification via lexical rather than $_. -Simon # 1998-02-25 Version 1.00 - String::Escape # 1998-02-25 Moved to String:: and @EXPORT_OK for CPAN distribution - jeremy # 1998-02-19 Started removal of sub add calls throughout Evo::Script # 1997-11-13 Changed truncate's name to elide -- looks like keyword conflict? # 1997-10-28 Created generic by-name interface; renamed printable(). # 1997-10-21 Altered quote_non_words regex to accept '-', '/', and '.' # 1997-08-17 Created this package from functions in dictionary.pm. # 1997-03-?? Added shortenstring() to Evo::dictionary package. -Simon package String::Escape; require 5; use strict; use Carp; use Exporter; use vars qw( $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT_OK ); $VERSION = 1998.12_04; push @ISA, qw( Exporter ); push @EXPORT_OK, qw( escape printable unprintable elide ); push @EXPORT_OK, qw( quote unquote quote_non_words qprintable unqprintable ); ### Call by-name interface # %Escapes - escaper function references by name use vars qw( %Escapes ); %Escapes = ( %Escapes, 'none' => sub ($) { $_[0]; }, 'uppercase' => sub ($) { uc $_[0] }, 'lowercase' => sub ($) { lc $_[0] }, 'initialcase' => sub ($) { ucfirst lc $_[0] }, 'quote' => \"e, 'unquote' => \&unquote, 'quote_non_words' => \"e_non_words, 'printable' => \&printable, 'unprintable' => \&unprintable, 'qprintable' => 'printable quote_non_words', 'unqprintable' => 'unquote unprintable', 'elide' => \&elide, ); # String::Escape::add( $name, $subroutine ); sub add ($$) { $Escapes{ shift(@_) } = shift(@_); } # @defined_names = String::Escape::names(); sub names () { keys(%Escapes); } # $escaped = escape($escape_spec, $value); # @escaped = escape($escape_spec, @values); sub escape ($@) { my ($escape_spec, @values) = @_; croak "escape called with multiple values but in scalar context" if ($#values > 0 && ! wantarray); my @escapes = expand_escape_spec($escape_spec); # warn "Escaping: ". join(' ', @escapes) . "\n"; my ($value, $escaper); foreach $value ( @values ) { foreach $escaper ( @escapes ) { $value = &$escaper( $value ); } } return wantarray ? @values : $values[0]; } # @escape_functions = expand_escape_spec($escape_spec); sub expand_escape_spec { my $escape_spec = shift; if ( ref($escape_spec) eq 'CODE' ) { return $escape_spec; } elsif ( ref($escape_spec) eq 'ARRAY' ) { return map { expand_escape_spec($_) } @$escape_spec; } elsif ( ! ref($escape_spec) ) { return map { expand_escape_spec($_) } map { $Escapes{$_} or croak "unsupported escape specification '$_'; " . "should be one of " . join(', ', names()) } split(/\s+/, $escape_spec); } else { croak "unsupported escape specification '$escape_spec'"; } } ### Double Quoting # $with_surrounding_quotes = quote( $string_value ); sub quote ($) { '"' . $_[0] . '"' } # $remove_surrounding_quotes = quote( $string_value ); sub unquote ($) { local $_ = $_[0]; s/\A\"(.*)\"\Z/$1/; $_; } # $word_or_phrase_with_surrounding_quotes = quote( $string_value ); sub quote_non_words ($) { ( ! length $_[0] or $_[0] =~ /[^\w\_\-\/\.\:\#]/ ) ? '"'.$_[0].'"' : $_[0] } ### Backslash Escaping use vars qw( %Printable %Unprintable ); %Printable = ( ( map { chr($_), unpack('H2', chr($_)) } (0..255) ), "\\"=>'\\', "\r"=>'r', "\n"=>'n', "\t"=>'t', "\""=>'"' ); %Unprintable = ( reverse %Printable ); # $special_characters_escaped = printable( $source_string ); sub printable ($) { local $_ = ( defined $_[0] ? $_[0] : '' ); s/([\r\n\t\"\\\x00-\x1f\x7F-\xFF])/\\$Printable{$1}/g; return $_; } # $original_string = unprintable( $special_characters_escaped ); sub unprintable ($) { local $_ = ( defined $_[0] ? $_[0] : '' ); s/((?:\A|\G|[^\\]))\\([rRnNtT\"\\]|[\da-fA-F]{2})/$1.$Unprintable{lc($2)}/ge; return $_; } # quoted_and_escaped = qprintable( $source_string ); sub qprintable ($) { quote_non_words printable $_[0] } # $original_string = unqprintable( quoted_and_escaped ); sub unqprintable ($) { unprintable unquote $_[0] } ### Elision use vars qw( $Elipses $DefaultLength $DefaultStrictness ); $Elipses = '...'; $DefaultLength = 60; $DefaultStrictness = 10; # $elided_string = elide($string); # $elided_string = elide($string, $length); # $elided_string = elide($string, $length, $word_boundary_strictness); # Return a single-quoted, shortened version of the string, with ellipsis sub elide ($;$$) { my $source = shift; my $length = scalar(@_) ? shift() : $DefaultLength; my $word_limit = scalar(@_) ? shift() : $DefaultStrictness; # If the source is already short, we don't need to do anything return $source if (length($source) < $length); # Leave room for the elipses and make sure we include at least one character. $length -= length( $Elipses ); $length = 1 if ( $length < 1 ); my $excerpt; # Try matching $length characters or less at a word boundary. $excerpt = ( $source =~ /^(.{0,$length})(?:\s|\Z)/ )[0] if ( $word_limit ); # Ignore boundaries if that fails or returns much less than we wanted. $excerpt = substr($source, 0, $length) if ( ! defined $excerpt or length($excerpt) < length($source) and ! length($excerpt) || abs($length - length($excerpt)) > $word_limit); return $excerpt . $Elipses; } 1; =pod =head1 NAME String::Escape - Registry of string functions, including backslash escapes =head1 SYNOPSIS use String::Escape qw( printable unprintable ); # Convert control, high-bit chars to \n or \xxx escapes $output = printable($value); # Convert escape sequences back to original chars $value = unprintable($input); use String::Escape qw( elide ); # Shorten strings to fit, if necessary foreach (@_) { print elide( $_, 79 ) . "\n"; } use String::Escape qw( escape ); # Defer selection of escaping routines until runtime $escape_name = $use_quotes ? 'qprintable' : 'printable'; @escaped = escape($escape_name, @values); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module provides a flexible calling interface to some frequently-performed string conversion functions, including applying and removing C/Unix-style backslash escapes like \n and \t, wrapping and removing double-quotes, and truncating to fit within a desired length. The escape() function provides for dynamic selection of operations by using a package hash variable to map escape specification strings to the functions which implement them. The lookup imposes a bit of a performance penalty, but allows for some useful late-binding behaviour. Compound specifications (ex. 'quoted uppercase') are expanded to a list of functions to be applied in order. Other modules may also register their functions here for later general use. =head1 REFERENCE =head2 Escaping And Unescaping Functions Each of these functions takes a single simple scalar argument and returns its escaped (or unescaped) equivalent. =over 4 =item quote($value) : $escaped Add double quote characters to each end of the string. =item quote_non_words($value) : $escaped As above, but only quotes empty, punctuated, and multiword values. =item unquote($value) : $escaped If the string both begins and ends with double quote characters, they are removed, otherwise the string is returned unchanged. =item printable($value) : $escaped =item unprintable($value) : $escaped These functions convert return, newline, tab, backslash and unprintable characters to their backslash-escaped equivalents and back again. =item qprintable($value) : $escaped =item unqprintable($value) : $escaped The qprintable function applies printable escaping and then wraps the results with quote_non_words, while unqprintable applies unquote and then unprintable. (Note that this is I MIME quoted-printable encoding.) =back =head2 String Elision Function This function extracts the leading portion of a provided string and appends ellipsis if it's longer than the desired maximum excerpt length. =over 4 =item elide($string) : $elided_string =item elide($string, $length) : $elided_string =item elide($string, $length, $word_boundary_strictness) : $elided_string If the original string is shorter than $length, it is returned unchanged. At most $length characters are returned; if called with a single argument, $length defaults to $DefaultLength. Up to $word_boundary_strictness additional characters may be ommited in order to make the elided portion end on a word boundary; you can pass 0 to ignore word boundaries. If not provided, $word_boundary_strictness defaults to $DefaultStrictness. =item $Elipses The string of characters used to indicate the end of the excerpt. Initialized to '...'. =item $DefaultLength The default target excerpt length, used when the elide function is called with a single argument. Initialized to 60. =item $DefaultStrictness The default word-boundary flexibility, used when the elide function is called without the third argument. Initialized to 10. =back =head2 Escape By-Name These functions provide for the registration of string-escape specification names and corresponding functions, and then allow the invocation of one or several of these functions on one or several source string values. =over 4 =item escape($escapes, $value) : $escaped_value =item escape($escapes, @values) : @escaped_values Returns an altered copy of the provided values by looking up the escapes string in a registry of string-modification functions. If called in a scalar context, operates on the single value passed in; if called in a list contact, operates identically on each of the provided values. Valid escape specifications are: =over 4 =item one of the keys defined in %Escapes The coresponding specification will be looked up and used. =item a sequence of names separated by whitespace, Each name will be looked up, and each of the associated functions will be applied successively, from left to right. =item a reference to a function The provided function will be called on with each value in turn. =item a reference to an array Each item in the array will be expanded as provided above. =back A fatal error will be generated if you pass an unsupported escape specification, or if the function is called with multiple values in a scalar context. =item String::Escape::names() : @defined_escapes Returns a list of defined escape specification strings. =item String::Escape::add( $escape_name, \&escape_function ); Add a new escape specification and corresponding function. =item %Escapes : $name, $operation, ... By default, the %Escapes hash is initialized to contain the following mappings: =over 4 =item quote, unquote, or quote_non_words =item printable, unprintable, qprintable, or unqprintable, =item elide Run the above-described functions of the same names. =item uppercase, lowercase, or initialcase Alters the case of letters in the string to upper or lower case, or for initialcase, sets the first letter to upper case and all others to lower. =item none Return an unchanged copy of the original value. =back =back =head1 EXAMPLES C C> C C> C C> C C> C<$string = 'foo bar baz this that the other';> C C> C C> C C> =head1 PREREQUISITES AND INSTALLATION This package should run on any standard Perl 5 installation. To install this package, download and unpack the distribution archive from http://www.evoscript.com/dist/ or your favorite CPAN mirror, and execute the standard "perl Makefile.PL", "make test", "make install" sequence. =head1 STATUS AND SUPPORT This release of String::Escape is intended for public review and feedback. It has been tested in several environments and no major problems have been discovered, but it should be considered "beta" pending that feedback. Name DSLI Description -------------- ---- --------------------------------------------- String:: ::Escape bdpf Escape by-name registry and useful functions Further information and support for this module is available at Ewww.evoscript.comE. Please report bugs or other problems to Ebugs@evoscript.comE. The following changes are in progress or under consideration: =over 4 =item Use word-boundary test in elide's regular expression rather than \s|\Z. =item Compare with TOMC's String::Edit package. =back =head1 AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 1997, 1998 Evolution Online Systems, Inc. Ewww.evolution.comE You may use this software for free under the terms of the Artistic License. Contributors: M. Simon Cavalletto Esimonm@evolution.comE, Jeremy G. Bishop Ejeremy@evolution.comE =cut