util.h 3.12 KB
/* util.h -- general utility functions
 * $Id$
 *
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 * THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
 * AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE
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 * Author: Chris Newman
 * Start Date: 4/6/93
 */

#ifndef INCLUDED_UTIL_H
#define INCLUDED_UTIL_H

extern const unsigned char convert_to_lowercase[256];
extern const unsigned char convert_to_uppercase[256];

#define TOUPPER(c) (convert_to_uppercase[(unsigned char)(c)])
#define TOLOWER(c) (convert_to_lowercase[(unsigned char)(c)])

typedef struct keyvalue {
    char *key, *value;
} keyvalue;

/* convert string to all lower case
 */
extern char *lcase (char *str);

/* convert string to all upper case
 */
extern char *ucase (char *str);

/* clean up control characters in a string while copying it
 *  returns pointer to end of dst string.
 *  dst must have twice the length of source
 */
extern char *beautify_copy (char *dst, const char *src);

/* clean up control characters in a string while copying it
 *  returns pointer to a static buffer containing the cleaned-up version
 *  returns NULL on malloc() error
 */
extern char *beautify_string (const char *src);

/* do a binary search in a keyvalue array
 *  nelem is the number of keyvalue elements in the kv array
 *  cmpf is the comparison function (strcmp, stricmp, etc).
 *  returns NULL if not found, or key/value pair if found.
 */
extern keyvalue *kv_bsearch (const char *key, keyvalue *kv, int nelem,
			       int (*cmpf)(const char *s1, const char *s2));

#endif /* INCLUDED_UTIL_H */