racket/collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl
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#lang scribble/doc
@(require "mz.ss")
@title[#:tag "bytestrings"]{Byte Strings}
@guideintro["bytestrings"]{byte strings}
@local-table-of-contents[]
A @deftech{byte string} is a fixed-length arary of bytes. A
@pidefterm{byte} is an exact integer between @scheme[0] and
@scheme[255] inclusive.
@index['("byte strings" "immutable")]{A} byte string can be
@defterm{mutable} or @defterm{immutable}. When an immutable byte
string is provided to a procedure like @scheme[bytes-set!], the
@exnraise[exn:fail:contract]. Byte-string constants generated by the
default reader (see @secref["parse-string"]) are immutable.
Two byte strings are @scheme[equal?] when they have the same length
and contain the same sequence of bytes.
A byte string can be used as a single-valued sequence (see
@secref["sequences"]). The bytes of the string serve as elements
of the sequence. See also @scheme[in-bytes].
See also: @scheme[immutable].
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{Byte String Constructors, Selectors, and Mutators}
@defproc[(bytes? [v any/c]) boolean?]{ Returns @scheme[#t] if @scheme[v]
is a byte string, @scheme[#f] otherwise.
@examples[(bytes? #"Apple") (bytes? "Apple")]}
@defproc[(make-bytes [k exact-nonnegative-integer?] [b byte? 0])
bytes?]{ Returns a new mutable byte string of length @scheme[k] where each
position in the byte string is initialized with the byte @scheme[b].
@examples[(make-bytes 5 65)]}
@defproc[(bytes [b byte?] ...) bytes?]{ Returns a new mutable byte
string whose length is the number of provided @scheme[b]s, and whose
positions are initialized with the given @scheme[b]s.
@examples[(bytes 65 112 112 108 101)]}
@defproc[(bytes->immutable-bytes [bstr bytes?])
(and/c bytes?
immutable?)]{
Returns an immutable byte string with the same content
as @scheme[bstr], returning @scheme[bstr] itself if @scheme[bstr] is
immutable.}
@defproc[(byte? [v any/c]) boolean?]{ Returns @scheme[#t] if @scheme[v] is
a byte (i.e., an exact integer between @scheme[0] and @scheme[255]
inclusive), @scheme[#f] otherwise.
@examples[(byte? 65) (byte? 0) (byte? 256) (byte? -1)]}
@defproc[(bytes-length [bstr bytes?]) exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the length of @scheme[bstr].
@examples[(bytes-length #"Apple")]}
@defproc[(bytes-ref [bstr bytes?] [k exact-nonnegative-integer?])
byte?]{ Returns the character at position @scheme[k] in @scheme[bstr].
The first position in the bytes cooresponds to @scheme[0], so the
position @scheme[k] must be less than the length of the bytes,
otherwise the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(bytes-ref #"Apple" 0)]}
@defproc[(bytes-set! [bstr (and/c bytes? (not/c immutable?))] [k
exact-nonnegative-integer?] [b byte?]) void?]{ Changes the
character position @scheme[k] in @scheme[bstr] to @scheme[b]. The first
position in the byte string cooresponds to @scheme[0], so the position
@scheme[k] must be less than the length of the bytes, otherwise the
@exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(define s (bytes 65 112 112 108 101))
(bytes-set! s 4 121)
s]}
@defproc[(subbytes [bstr bytes?] [start exact-nonnegative-integer?]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length str)]) bytes?]{
Returns a new mutable byte string that is @scheme[(- end start)]
bytes long, and that contains the same bytes
as @scheme[bstr] from @scheme[start] inclusive to @scheme[end] exclusive. The
@scheme[start] and @scheme[end] arguments must be less than the length of
@scheme[bstr], and @scheme[end] must be greater than or equal to @scheme[bstr],
otherwise the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(subbytes #"Apple" 1 3)
(subbytes #"Apple" 1)]}
@defproc[(bytes-copy [bstr bytes?]) bytes?]{ Returns
@scheme[(subbytes str 0)].}
@defproc[(bytes-copy! [dest (and/c bytes? (not/c immutable?))]
[dest-start exact-nonnegative-integer?]
[src bytes?]
[src-start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[src-end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length src)])
void?]{
Changes the bytes of @scheme[dest] starting at position
@scheme[dest-start] to match the bytes in @scheme[src] from
@scheme[src-start] (inclusive) to @scheme[src-end] (exclusive). The
bytes strings @scheme[dest] and @scheme[src] can be the same byte
string, and in that case the destination region can overlap with the
source region; the destination bytes after the copy match the source
bytes 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 bytes strings and the source and destination
regions), the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].
@examples[(define s (bytes 65 112 112 108 101))
(bytes-copy! s 4 #"y")
(bytes-copy! s 0 s 3 4)
s]}
@defproc[(bytes-fill! [dest (and/c bytes? (not/c immutable?))] [char
char?]) void?]{ Changes @scheme[dest] so that every position in the
bytes is filled with @scheme[char].
@examples[(define s (bytes 65 112 112 108 101))
(bytes-fill! s 113)
s]}
@defproc[(bytes-append [bstr bytes?] ...) bytes?]{
@index['("byte strings" "concatenate")]{Returns} a new mutable byte string
that is as long as the sum of the given @scheme[bstr]s' lengths, and
that contains the concatenated bytes of the given @scheme[bstr]s. If
no @scheme[bstr]s are provided, the result is a zero-length byte
string.
@examples[(bytes-append #"Apple" #"Banana")]}
@defproc[(bytes->list [bstr bytes?]) (listof byte?)]{ Returns a new
list of bytes coresponding to the content of @scheme[bstr]. That is,
the length of the list is @scheme[(bytes-length @scheme[bstr])], and the
sequence of bytes of @scheme[bstr] are in the same sequence in the
result list.
@examples[(bytes->list #"Apple")]}
@defproc[(list->bytes [lst (listof byte?)]) bytes?]{ Returns a new
mutable bytes whose content is the list of bytes in @scheme[lst].
That is, the length of the bytes is @scheme[(length @scheme[lst])], and
the sequence of bytes in @scheme[lst] is in the same sequence in
the result bytes.
@examples[(list->bytes (list 65 112 112 108 101))]}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{Byte String Comparisons}
@defproc[(bytes=? [bstr1 bytes?] [bstr2 bytes?] ...+) boolean?]{ Returns
@scheme[#t] if all of the arguments are @scheme[eqv?].}
@examples[(bytes=? #"Apple" #"apple")
(bytes=? #"a" #"as" #"a")]
@(define (bytes-sort direction)
@elem{Like @scheme[bytes<?], but checks whether the arguments are @|direction|.})
@defproc[(bytes<? [bstr1 bytes?] [bstr2 bytes?] ...+) boolean?]{
Returns @scheme[#t] if the arguments are lexicographically sorted
increasing, where individual bytes are ordered by @scheme[<],
@scheme[#f] otherwise.
@examples[(bytes<? #"Apple" #"apple")
(bytes<? #"apple" #"Apple")
(bytes<? #"a" #"b" #"c")]}
@defproc[(bytes>? [bstr1 bytes?] [bstr2 bytes?] ...+) boolean?]{
@bytes-sort["decreasing"]
@examples[(bytes>? #"Apple" #"apple")
(bytes>? #"apple" #"Apple")
(bytes>? #"c" #"b" #"a")]}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{Bytes to/from Characters, Decoding and Encoding}
@defproc[(bytes->string/utf-8 [bstr bytes?]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
string?]{
Produces a string by decoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end]
substring of @scheme[bstr] as a UTF-8 encoding of Unicode code
points. If @scheme[err-char] is not @scheme[#f], then it is used for
bytes that fall in the range @scheme[#o200] to @scheme[#o377] but are
not part of a valid encoding sequence. (This is consistent with
reading characters from a port; see @secref["encodings"] for more
details.) If @scheme[err-char] is @scheme[#f], and if the
@scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring of @scheme[bstr] is not a
valid UTF-8 encoding overall, then the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].}
@defproc[(bytes->string/locale [bstr bytes?]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
string?]{
Produces a string by decoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring
of @scheme[bstr] using the current locale's encoding (see also
@secref["encodings"]). If @scheme[err-char] is not
@scheme[#f], it is used for each byte in @scheme[bstr] that is not part
of a valid encoding; if @scheme[err-char] is @scheme[#f], and if the
@scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring of @scheme[bstr] is not a valid
encoding overall, then the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].}
@defproc[(bytes->string/latin-1 [bstr bytes?]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
string?]{
Produces a string by decoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring
of @scheme[bstr] as a Latin-1 encoding of Unicode code points; i.e.,
each byte is translated directly to a character using
@scheme[integer->char], so the decoding always succeeds. (See also the
Latin-1 footnote of @secref["encodings"].) The @scheme[err-char]
argument is ignored, but present for consistency with the other
operations.}
@defproc[(string->bytes/utf-8 [str string?]
[err-byte (or/c false/c byte?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-length str)])
bytes?]{
Produces a byte string by encoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end]
substring of @scheme[str] via UTF-8 (always succeeding). The
@scheme[err-byte] argument is ignored, but included for consistency with
the other operations.}
@defproc[(string->bytes/locale [str string?]
[err-byte (or/c false/c byte?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-length str)])
bytes?]{
Produces a string by encoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring
of @scheme[str] using the current locale's encoding (see also
@secref["encodings"]). If @scheme[err-byte] is not @scheme[#f], it is used
for each character in @scheme[str] that cannot be encoded for the
current locale; if @scheme[err-byte] is @scheme[#f], and if the
@scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring of @scheme[str] cannot be encoded,
then the @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].}
@defproc[(string->bytes/latin-1 [str string?]
[err-byte (or/c false/c byte?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-length str)])
bytes?]{
Produces a string by encoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring
of @scheme[str] using Latin-1; i.e., each character is translated
directly to a byte using @scheme[char->integer]. If @scheme[err-byte] is
not @scheme[#f], it is used for each character in @scheme[str] whose
value is greater than @scheme[255]. (See also the Latin-1 footnote of
@secref["encodings"]. If @scheme[err-byte] is @scheme[#f], and if the
@scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring of @scheme[str] has a character
with a value greater than @scheme[255], then the
@exnraise[exn:fail:contract].}
@defproc[(string-utf-8-length [str string?]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (string-lenght str)])
exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the length in bytes of the UTF-8 encoding of @scheme[str]'s
substring from @scheme[start] to @scheme[end], but without actually
generating the encoded bytes.}
@defproc[(bytes-utf-8-length [bstr bytes?]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the length in characters of the UTF-8 decoding of
@scheme[bstr]'s substring from @scheme[start] to @scheme[end], but without
actually generating the decoded characters. If @scheme[err-char] is
@scheme[#f] and the substring is not a UTF-8 encoding overall, the
result is @scheme[#f]. Otherwise, @scheme[err-char] is used to resolve
decoding errors as in @scheme[bytes->string/utf-8].}
@defproc[(bytes-utf-8-ref [bstr bytes?]
[skip exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
char?]{
Returns the @scheme[skip]th character in the UTF-8 decoding of
@scheme[bstr]'s substring from @scheme[start] to @scheme[end], but without
actually generating the other decoded characters. If the substring is
not a UTF-8 encoding up to the @scheme[skip]th character (when
@scheme[err-char] is @scheme[#f]), or if the substring decoding produces
fewer than @scheme[skip] characters, the result is @scheme[#f]. If
@scheme[err-char] is not @scheme[#f], it is used to resolve decoding
errors as in @scheme[bytes->string/utf-8].}
@defproc[(bytes-utf-8-index [bstr bytes?]
[skip exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[err-char (or/c false/c char?) #f]
[start exact-nonnegative-integer? 0]
[end exact-nonnegative-integer? (bytes-length bstr)])
exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the offset in bytes into @scheme[bstr] at which the @scheme[skip]th
character's encoding starts in the UTF-8 decoding of @scheme[bstr]'s
substring from @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] (but without actually
generating the other decoded characters). The result is relative to
the start of @scheme[bstr], not to @scheme[start]. If the substring is not
a UTF-8 encoding up to the @scheme[skip]th character (when
@scheme[err-char] is @scheme[#f]), or if the substring decoding produces
fewer than @scheme[skip] characters, the result is @scheme[#f]. If
@scheme[err-char] is not @scheme[#f], it is used to resolve decoding
errors as in @scheme[bytes->string/utf-8].}
@; ----------------------------------------
@section{Bytes to Bytes Encoding Conversion}
@defproc[(bytes-open-converter [from-name string?][to-name string?])
bytes-converter?]{
Produces a string converter to go from the encoding named by
@scheme[from-name] to the encoding named by @scheme[to-name]. If the
requested conversion pair is not available, @scheme[#f] is returned
instead of a converter.
Certain encoding combinations are always available:
@itemize{
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "UTF-8" "UTF-8")] --- the
identity conversion, except that encoding errors in the input lead
to a decoding failure.}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "UTF-8-permissive" "UTF-8")] ---
@index['("UTF-8-permissive")]{the} identity conversion, except that
any input byte that is not part of a valid encoding sequence is
effectively replaced by the UTF-8 encoding sequence for
@scheme[#\uFFFD]. (This handling of invalid sequences is
consistent with the interpretation of port bytes streams into
characters; see @secref["ports"].)}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "" "UTF-8")] --- converts from
the current locale's default encoding (see @secref["encodings"])
to UTF-8.}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "UTF-8" "")] --- converts from
UTF-8 to the current locale's default encoding (see
@secref["encodings"]).}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "platform-UTF-8" "platform-UTF-16")]
--- converts UTF-8 to UTF-16 under @|AllUnix|, where each UTF-16
code unit is a sequence of two bytes ordered by the current
platform's endianess. Under Windows, the input can include
encodings that are not valid UTF-8, but which naturally extend the
UTF-8 encoding to support unpaired surrogate code units, and the
output is a sequence of UTF-16 code units (as little-endian byte
pairs), potentially including unpaired surrogates.}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "platform-UTF-8-permissive" "platform-UTF-16")]
--- like @scheme[(bytes-open-converter "platform-UTF-8" "platform-UTF-16")],
but an input byte that is not part of a valid UTF-8 encoding
sequence (or valid for the unpaired-surrogate extension under
Windows) is effectively replaced with @scheme[(char->integer #\?)].}
@item{@scheme[(bytes-open-converter "platform-UTF-16" "platform-UTF-8")]
--- converts UTF-16 (bytes orderd by the current platform's
endianness) to UTF-8 under @|AllUnix|. Under Windows, the input can
include UTF-16 code units that are unpaired surrogates, and the
corresponding output includes an encoding of each surrogate in a
natural extension of UTF-8. Under @|AllUnix|, surrogates are
assumed to be paired: a pair of bytes with the bits @scheme[#xD800]
starts a surrogate pair, and the @scheme[#x03FF] bits are used from
the pair and following pair (independent of the value of the
@scheme[#xDC00] bits). On all platforms, performance may be poor
when decoding from an odd offset within an input byte string.}
}
A newly opened byte converter is registered with the current custodian
(see @secref["custodians"]), so that the converter is closed when
the custodian is shut down. A converter is not registered with a
custodian (and does not need to be closed) if it is one of the
guaranteed combinations not involving @scheme[""] under Unix, or if it
is any of the guaranteed combinations (including @scheme[""]) under
Windows and Mac OS X.
@margin-note{In PLT's software distributions for Windows, a suitable
@filepath{iconv.dll} is included with @filepath{libmzsch@italic{VERS}.dll}.}
The set of available encodings and combinations varies by platform,
depending on the @exec{iconv} library that is installed. Under
Windows, @filepath{iconv.dll} or @filepath{libiconv.dll} must be in the same
directory as @filepath{libmzsch@italic{VERS}.dll} (where @italic{VERS} is
a version number), in the user's path, in the system directory, or in
the current executable's directory at run time, and the DLL must
either supply @tt{_errno} or link to @filepath{msvcrt.dll} for
@tt{_errno}; otherwise, only the guaranteed combinations are
available.}
@defproc[(bytes-close-converter [converter bytes-converter?]) void]{
Closes the given converter, so that it can no longer be used with
@scheme[bytes-convert] or @scheme[bytes-convert-end].}
@defproc[(bytes-convert [converter bytes-converter?]
[src-bstr bytes?]
[src-start-pos nonnegative-exact-integer? 0]
[src-end-pos nonnegative-exact-integer? (bytes-length src-bstr)]
[dest-bstr (or/c bytes? false/c) #f]
[dest-start-pos nonnegative-exact-integer? 0]
[dest-end-pos (or/c nonnegative-exact-integer? false/c)
(and dest-bstr
(bytes-length dest-bstr))])
(values (or/c bytes? nonnegative-exact-integer?)
nonnegative-exact-integer?
(one-of 'complete 'continues 'aborts 'error))]{
Converts the bytes from @scheme[src-start-pos] to @scheme[src-end-pos]
in @scheme[src-bstr].
If @scheme[dest-bstr] is not @scheme[#f], the converted byte are
written into @scheme[dest-bstr] from @scheme[dest-start-pos] to
@scheme[dest-end-pos]. If @scheme[dest-bstr] is @scheme[#f], then a
newly allocated byte string holds the conversion results, and if
@scheme[dest-end-pos] is not @scheme[#f], the size of the result byte
string is no more than @scheme[(- dest-end-pos dest-start-pos)].
The result of @scheme[bytes-convert] is three values:
@itemize{
@item{@scheme[_result-bstr] or @scheme[_dest-wrote-amt] --- a byte
string if @scheme[dest-bstr] is @scheme[#f] or not provided, or the
number of bytes written into @scheme[dest-bstr] otherwise.}
@item{@scheme[_src-read-amt] --- the number of bytes successfully converted
from @scheme[src-bstr].}
@item{@indexed-scheme['complete], @indexed-scheme['continues],
@indexed-scheme['aborts], or @indexed-scheme['error] --- indicates
how conversion terminated:
@itemize{
@item{@scheme['complete]: The entire input was processed, and
@scheme[_src-read-amt] will be equal to @scheme[(- src-end-pos
src-start-pos)].}
@item{@scheme['continues]: Conversion stopped due to the limit on
the result size or the space in @scheme[dest-bstr]; in this case,
fewer than @scheme[(- dest-end-pos dest-start-pos)] bytes may be
returned if more space is needed to process the next complete
encoding sequence in @scheme[src-bstr].}
@item{@scheme['aborts]: The input stopped part-way through an
encoding sequence, and more input bytes are necessary to continue.
For example, if the last byte of input is @scheme[#o303] for a
@scheme["UTF-8-permissive"] decoding, the result is
@scheme['aborts], because another byte is needed to determine how to
use the @scheme[#o303] byte.}
@item{@scheme['error]: The bytes starting at @scheme[(+
src-start-pos _src-read-amt)] bytes in @scheme[src-bstr] do not form
a legal encoding sequence. This result is never produced for some
encodings, where all byte sequences are valid encodings. For
example, since @scheme["UTF-8-permissive"] handles an invalid UTF-8
sequence by dropping characters or generating ``?,'' every byte
sequence is effectively valid.}
}}
}
Applying a converter accumulates state in the converter (even when the
third result of @scheme[bytes-convert] is @scheme['complete]). This
state can affect both further processing of input and further
generation of output, but only for conversions that involve ``shift
sequences'' to change modes within a stream. To terminate an input
sequence and reset the converter, use @scheme[bytes-convert-end].}
@defproc[(bytes-convert-end [converter bytes-converter?]
[dest-bstr (or/c bytes? false/c) #f]
[dest-start-pos nonnegative-exact-integer? 0]
[dest-end-pos (or/c nonnegative-exact-integer? false/c)
(and dest-bstr
(bytes-length dest-bstr))])
(values (or/c bytes? nonnegative-exact-integer?)
(one-of 'complete 'continues))]{
Like @scheme[bytes-convert], but instead of converting bytes, this
procedure generates an ending sequence for the conversion (sometimes
called a ``shift sequence''), if any. Few encodings use shift
sequences, so this function will succeed with no output for most
encodings. In any case, successful output of a (possibly empty) shift
sequence resets the converter to its initial state.
The result of @scheme[bytes-convert-end] is two values:
@itemize{
@item{@scheme[_result-bstr] or @scheme[_dest-wrote-amt] --- a byte string if
@scheme[dest-bstr] is @scheme[#f] or not provided, or the number of
bytes written into @scheme[dest-bstr] otherwise.}
@item{@indexed-scheme['complete] or @indexed-scheme['continues] ---
indicates whether conversion completed. If @scheme['complete], then
an entire ending sequence was produced. If @scheme['continues], then
the conversion could not complete due to the limit on the result
size or the space in @scheme[dest-bstr], and the first result is
either an empty byte string or @scheme[0].}
}
}
@defproc[(bytes-converter? [v any/c]) boolean?]{
Returns @scheme[#t] if @scheme[v] is a byte converter produced by
@scheme[bytes-open-converter], @scheme[#f] otherwise.}
@defproc[(locale-string-encoding) any]{
Returns a string for the current locale's encoding (i.e., the encoding
normally identified by @scheme[""]). See also
@scheme[system-language+country].}