racket/collects/scribblings/reference/strings.scrbl
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#lang scribble/doc
@require["mz.ss"]
@title[#:tag "strings"]{Strings}
@guideintro["strings"]{strings}
A @pidefterm{string} is a fixed-length array of
@seclink["characters"]{characters}.
@index['("strings" "immutable")]{A} string can be @defterm{mutable} or
@defterm{immutable}. When an immutable string is provided to a
procedure like @scheme[string-set!], the
@exnraise[exn:fail:contract]. String constants generated by the
default reader (see @secref["parse-string"]) are
immutable.
Two strings are @scheme[equal?] when they have the same length and
contain the same sequence of characters.
A string can be used as a single-valued sequence (see
@secref["sequences"]). The characters of the string serve as elements
of the sequence. See also @scheme[in-string].
See also: @scheme[immutable], @scheme[symbol->string],
@scheme[bytes->string/utf-8].
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{String Constructors, Selectors, and Mutators}
@defproc[(string? [v any/c]) boolean?]{ Returns @scheme[#t] if @scheme[v]
is a string, @scheme[#f] otherwise.
@examples[(string? "Apple") (string? 'apple)]}
@defproc[(make-string [k exact-nonnegative-integer?] [char char?
#\nul]) string?]{ Returns a new mutable string of length @scheme[k] where
each position in the string is initialized with the character
@scheme[char].
@examples[(make-string 5 #\z)]}
@defproc[(string [char char?] ...) string?]{ Returns a new
mutable string whose length is the number of provided @scheme[char]s, and
whose positions are initialized with the given @scheme[char]s.
@examples[(string #\A #\p #\p #\l #\e)]}
@defproc[(string->immutable-string [str string?]) (and/c string? immutable?)]{
Returns an immutable string with the same content as
@scheme[str], returning @scheme[str] itself if @scheme[str] is
immutable.}
@defproc[(string-length [str string?]) exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the length of @scheme[str].
@examples[(string-length "Apple")]}
@defproc[(string-ref [str string?] [k exact-nonnegative-integer?])
char?]{ Returns the character at position @scheme[k] in @scheme[str].
The first position in the string corresponds to @scheme[0], so the
position @scheme[k] must be less than the length of the string,
otherwise the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(string-ref "Apple" 0)]}
@defproc[(string-set! [str (and/c string? (not/c immutable?))] [k
exact-nonnegative-integer?] [char char?]) void?]{ Changes the
character position @scheme[k] in @scheme[str] to @scheme[char]. The first
position in the string corresponds to @scheme[0], so the position
@scheme[k] must be less than the length of the string, otherwise the
@exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(define s (string #\A #\p #\p #\l #\e))
(string-set! s 4 #\y)
s]}
@defproc[(substring [str string?] [start exact-nonnegative-integer?]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-length str)]) string?]{
Returns a new mutable string that is @scheme[(- end start)]
characters long, and that contains the same characters
as @scheme[str] from @scheme[start] inclusive to @scheme[end] exclusive. The
@scheme[start] and @scheme[end] arguments must be less than the length of
@scheme[str], and @scheme[end] must be greater than or equal to @scheme[str],
otherwise the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(substring "Apple" 1 3)
(substring "Apple" 1)]}
@defproc[(string-copy [str string?]) string?]{ Returns
@scheme[(substring str 0)].}
@defproc[(string-copy! [dest (and/c string? (not/c immutable?))]
[dest-start exact-nonnegative-integer?]
[src string?]
[src-start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[src-end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-length src)])
void?]{
Changes the characters of @scheme[dest] starting at position
@scheme[dest-start] to match the characters in @scheme[src] from
@scheme[src-start] (inclusive) to @scheme[src-end] (exclusive). The
strings @scheme[dest] and @scheme[src] can be the same string, and in
that case the destination region can overlap with the source region;
the destination characters after the copy match the source characters
from before the copy. If any of @scheme[dest-start],
@scheme[src-start], or @scheme[src-end] are out of range (taking into
account the sizes of the strings and the source and destination
regions), the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(define s (string #\A #\p #\p #\l #\e))
(string-copy! s 4 "y")
(string-copy! s 0 s 3 4)
s]}
@defproc[(string-fill! [dest (and/c string? (not/c immutable?))] [char
char?]) void?]{ Changes @scheme[dest] so that every position in the
string is filled with @scheme[char].
@examples[(define s (string #\A #\p #\p #\l #\e))
(string-fill! s #\q)
s]}
@defproc[(string-append [str string?] ...) string?]{
@index['("strings" "concatenate")]{Returns} a new mutable string that is
as long as the sum of the given @scheme[str]s' lengths, and that
contains the concatenated characters of the given @scheme[str]s. If no
@scheme[str]s are provided, the result is a zero-length string.
@examples[(string-append "Apple" "Banana")]}
@defproc[(string->list [str string?]) (listof char?)]{ Returns a new
list of characters coresponding to the content of @scheme[str]. That is,
the length of the list is @scheme[(string-length @scheme[str])], and the
sequence of characters of @scheme[str] are in the same sequence in the
result list.
@examples[(string->list "Apple")]}
@defproc[(list->string [lst (listof char?)]) string?]{ Returns a new
mutable string whose content is the list of characters in @scheme[lst].
That is, the length of the string is @scheme[(length @scheme[lst])], and
the sequence of characters in @scheme[lst] is in the same sequence in
the result string.
@examples[(list->string (list #\A #\p #\p #\l #\e))]}
@defproc[(build-string [n exact-nonnegative-integer?]
[proc (exact-nonnegative-integer? . -> . char?)])
string?]{
Creates a string of @scheme[n] characters by applying @scheme[proc] to
the integers from @scheme[0] to @scheme[(sub1 n)] in order. If
@scheme[_str] is the resulting string, then @scheme[(string-ref _str
_i)] is the character produced by @scheme[(proc _i)].
@examples[
(build-string 5 (lambda (i) (integer->char (+ i 97))))
]}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{String Comparisons}
@defproc[(string=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{ Returns
@scheme[#t] if all of the arguments are @scheme[equal?].}
@examples[(string=? "Apple" "apple")
(string=? "a" "as" "a")]
@define[(string-sort direction folded?)
(if folded?
@elem{Like @scheme[string-ci<?], but checks whether the arguments would be @direction after case-folding.}
@elem{Like @scheme[string<?], but checks whether the arguments are @|direction|.})]
@defproc[(string<? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
Returns @scheme[#t] if the arguments are lexicographically sorted
increasing, where individual characters are ordered by
@scheme[char<?], @scheme[#f] otherwise.
@examples[(string<? "Apple" "apple")
(string<? "apple" "Apple")
(string<? "a" "b" "c")]}
@defproc[(string<=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["nondecreasing" #f]
@examples[(string<=? "Apple" "apple")
(string<=? "apple" "Apple")
(string<=? "a" "b" "b")]}
@defproc[(string>? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["decreasing" #f]
@examples[(string>? "Apple" "apple")
(string>? "apple" "Apple")
(string>? "c" "b" "a")]}
@defproc[(string>=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["nonincreasing" #f]
@examples[(string>=? "Apple" "apple")
(string>=? "apple" "Apple")
(string>=? "c" "b" "b")]}
@defproc[(string-ci=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
Returns @scheme[#t] if all of the arguments are @scheme[eqv?] after
locale-insensitive case-folding via @scheme[string-foldcase].
@examples[(string-ci=? "Apple" "apple")
(string-ci=? "a" "a" "a")]}
@defproc[(string-ci<? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
Like @scheme[string<?], but checks whether the arguments would be in
increasing order if each was first case-folded using
@scheme[string-foldcase] (which is locale-insensitive).
@examples[(string-ci<? "Apple" "apple")
(string-ci<? "apple" "banana")
(string-ci<? "a" "b" "c")]}
@defproc[(string-ci<=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["nondecreasing" #t]
@examples[(string-ci<=? "Apple" "apple")
(string-ci<=? "apple" "Apple")
(string-ci<=? "a" "b" "b")]}
@defproc[(string-ci>? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["decreasing" #t]
@examples[(string-ci>? "Apple" "apple")
(string-ci>? "banana" "Apple")
(string-ci>? "c" "b" "a")]}
@defproc[(string-ci>=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
@string-sort["nonincreasing" #t]
@examples[(string-ci>=? "Apple" "apple")
(string-ci>=? "apple" "Apple")
(string-ci>=? "c" "b" "b")]}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{String Conversions}
@defproc[(string-upcase [str string?]) string?]{ Returns a string
whose characters are the upcase conversion of the characters in
@scheme[str]. The conversion uses Unicode's locale-independent
conversion rules that map code-point sequences to code-point
sequences (instead of simply mapping a 1-to-1 function on code points
over the string), so the string produced by the conversion can be
longer than the input string.
@examples[
(string-upcase "abc!")
(string-upcase "Stra\xDFe")
]}
@defproc[(string-downcase [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-upcase], but the downcase conversion.
@examples[
(string-downcase "aBC!")
(string-downcase "Stra\xDFe")
(string-downcase "\u039A\u0391\u039F\u03A3")
(string-downcase "\u03A3")
]}
@defproc[(string-titlecase [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-upcase], but the titlecase conversion only for the
first character in each sequence of cased characters in @scheme[str]
(ignoring case-ignorable characters).
@examples[
(string-titlecase "aBC twO")
(string-titlecase "y2k")
(string-titlecase "main stra\xDFe")
(string-titlecase "stra \xDFe")
]}
@defproc[(string-foldcase [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-upcase], but the case-folding conversion.
@examples[
(string-foldcase "aBC!")
(string-foldcase "Stra\xDFe")
(string-foldcase "\u039A\u0391\u039F\u03A3")
]}
@defproc[(string-normalize-nfd [string string?]) string?]{ Returns a
string that is the Unicode normalized form D of @scheme[string]. If
the given string is already in the corresponding Unicode normal form,
the string may be returned directly as the result (instead of a newly
allocated string).}
@defproc[(string-normalize-nfkd [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-normalize-nfd], but for normalized form KD.}
@defproc[(string-normalize-nfc [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-normalize-nfd], but for normalized form C.}
@defproc[(string-normalize-nfkc [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-normalize-nfd], but for normalized form KC.}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{Locale-Specific String Operations}
@defproc[(string-locale=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+)
boolean?]{ Like @scheme[string=?], but the strings are compared in a
locale-specific way, based the value of @scheme[current-locale]. See
@secref["encodings"] for more information on locales.}
@defproc[(string-locale<? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+) boolean?]{
Like @scheme[string<?], but the sort order compares strings in a
locale-specific way, based the value of @scheme[current-locale]. In
particular, the sort order may not be simply a lexicographic
extension of character ordering.}
@defproc[(string-locale>? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+)
boolean?]{ Like @scheme[string>?], but locale-specific like
@scheme[string-locale<?].}
@defproc[(string-locale-ci=? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+)
boolean?]{ Like @scheme[string-locale=?], but strings are compared
using rules that are both locale-specific and case-insensitive
(depending on what ``case-insensitive'' means for the current
locale).}
@defproc[(string-locale-ci<? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+)
boolean?]{ Like @scheme[string<?], but both locale-sensitive and
case-insensitive like @scheme[string-locale-ci=?].}
@defproc[(string-locale-ci>? [str1 string?] [str2 string?] ...+)
boolean?]{ Like @scheme[string>?], but both locale-sensitive and
case-insensitive like @scheme[string-locale-ci=?].}
@defproc[(string-locale-upcase [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-upcase], but using locale-specific case-conversion
rules based the value of @scheme[current-locale].}
@defproc[(string-locale-downcase [string string?]) string?]{ Like
@scheme[string-downcase], but using locale-specific case-conversion
rules based the value of @scheme[current-locale].
}