StringLib library

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A collection of string and similar functions with source, SLL and LIB. There are 21 .bas files in the zip.


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  The library does not need these prototypes, they are for function reference only
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   Path functions
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' FUNCTION app_name() COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION app_path() COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION get_extension(src$) COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION path_from_string(src$) COMMON as STRING

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   Text / Array functions
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' FUNCTION arr2str(arr() as STRING) COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION str2arr(src$,arr() as STRING) COMMON as DWORD
' FUNCTION txt2arr(src$,arr() as STRING) COMMON as DWORD
' FUNCTION line2arr(src$,arr() as STRING) COMMON as DWORD

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   Multiline string functions
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' FUNCTION block_insert(src$,leadtext$,trailtxt$,OPT ByVal operator as DWORD) COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION block_ltrim(txt$) COMMON as STRING
' FUNCTION block_monospace$(src$) COMMON
' FUNCTION block_rtrim(src$) COMMON as STRING

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   String length functions
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' FUNCTION slen(src$) COMMON as DWORD
' FUNCTION StrLen(ByVal item as DWORD) COMMON as DWORD

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   Character recognition functions
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' FUNCTION ischarnum(char$) COMMON as DWORD
' FUNCTION ishexnum(hxs$) COMMON as DWORD

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   Count every character in text and write the count to an array
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' FUNCTION char_count(src$,dwArr() as DWORD) COMMON as DWORD

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   Case insensitive string comparison
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' FUNCTION cmpi(txt1$, txt2$) COMMON as DWORD

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   C string emulation
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' FUNCTION cstr$(a$) COMMON

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   Partial string matching algorithm
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' FUNCTION partial(ByVal startat as DWORD,src$,patn$,OPT ByVal char as DWORD) COMMON as DWORD

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   Word tokeniser, a dependency for some of the above functions
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' FUNCTION wtok(ByVal pText as DWORD,ByVal pArray as DWORD) COMMON as DWORD