diff base/StringBits.h @ 629:35499d48a5d1

* Start overhauling CSV parser to associate purposes with columns en route to its guesses; add some string manipulation code

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+/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-  vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */
+
+/*
+    Sonic Visualiser
+    An audio file viewer and annotation editor.
+    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
+    
+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+    License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file
+    COPYING included with this distribution for more information.
+*/
+
+/*
+   This is a modified version of a source file from the 
+   Rosegarden MIDI and audio sequencer and notation editor.
+   This file copyright 2000-2010 Chris Cannam.
+*/
+
+#ifndef _STRING_BITS_H_
+#define _STRING_BITS_H_
+
+#include <QString>
+#include <QStringList>
+#include <QChar>
+
+class StringBits
+{
+public:
+    /**
+     * Convert a string to a double using basic "C"-locale syntax,
+     * i.e. always using '.' as a decimal point.  We use this as a
+     * fallback when parsing files from an unknown source, if
+     * locale-specific conversion fails.  Does not support e notation.
+     * If ok is non-NULL, *ok will be set to true if conversion
+     * succeeds or false otherwise.
+     */
+    static double stringToDoubleLocaleFree(QString s, bool *ok = 0);
+
+    /**
+     * Split a string at the given separator character, allowing
+     * quoted sections that contain the separator.  If the separator
+     * is ' ', any (amount of) whitespace will be considered as a
+     * single separator.  If the separator is another whitespace
+     * character such as '\t', it will be used literally.
+     */
+    static QStringList splitQuoted(QString s, QChar separator);
+
+    /**
+     * Split a string at the given separator character.  If quoted is
+     * true, do so by calling splitQuoted (above).  If quoted is
+     * false, use QString::split; if separator is ' ', use
+     * SkipEmptyParts behaviour, otherwise use KeepEmptyParts (this is
+     * analogous to the behaviour of splitQuoted).
+     */
+    static QStringList split(QString s, QChar separator, bool quoted);
+};
+
+#endif