StringizerLua

Lua String Manipulation Library

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Version
• Installation
• Tests and Code Coverage
• License

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Overview

StringizerLua is a string library is general port of Stringizer for PHP, a utility string library for Lua

PSR Compliance and Code Quality:

• Follows LuaRocks Style Guide
• Semver Versioning

Version

Unstable in development as May 15th, 2022

Release 0.1.0

Installation

// Coming soon using LuaRocks

Change Log

• May 21, 2022 Added tri, trim_left, trim_right, url_encode, url_decode, pad, pad_left, pad_right
• May 16, 2022 Remove the use of instantiating Stringizer instead string manipulation is exposed via static functions only. Added split
• May 15, 2022 Initial Release 0.1.0

License

The StringizerLua is licensed under the MIT license

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Developer Guide

is_string	is_empty	is_blank	base64_encode	base64_decode
between	starts_with	ends_with	chop_left	chop_right
split	trim	trim_left	trim_right
url_encode	url_decode	pad	pad_left	pad_right

Is String

This retrieves the original given string value prior to any manipulation

Usage

print(Stringizer.is_string(42))

Output

false

Usage

print(Stringizer.is_string("valid-string"))

Output

true

Is Empty

Check is string empty including no whitespace

Usage (has whitespace)

print(Stringizer.is_empty(" "))

Output

false

Usage (no whitespace)

print(Stringizer.is_empty(""))

Output

true

Usage (nil)

print(Stringizer.is_empty(nil))

Output

true

Is Blank

Check is string blank contains whitespace

Usage (has whitespace)

print(Stringizer.is_blank(" "))

Output

true

Usage (has no whitespace)

print(Stringizer.is_blank(" "))

Output

true

Usage (has as non whitespace characters)

print(Stringizer.is_blank("test"))

Output

false

Base64 Encode

Base64 Encode given string

Usage (has whitespace)

print(Stringizer.base64_encode("ȘŦŗÍñĝìzĕŕ"))

Output

yJjFpsWXw43DscSdw6x6xJXFld+T

Base64 Decode

Base64 Decode given string

Usage (has whitespace)

print(Stringizer.base64_decode("yJjFpsWXw43DscSdw6x6xJXFld+T"))

Output

ȘŦŗÍñĝìzĕŕ

Between

Extracts the a string from a larger string where both left and right side are identified

Usage

print(Stringizer.between("<div>ȘŦŗÍñĝìzĕŕ</div>", "<div>","</div>"))

Output

ȘŦŗÍñĝìzĕŕ

Starts With

Checks if string begins with the supplied prefix

Usage

print(Stringizer.starts_with("Fizz Buzz", "Fizz"))

Output

true

Ends With

Checks if string ends with the supplied suffix

Usage

print(Stringizer.ends_with("Fizz Buzz", "Buzz"))

Output

true

Chop Left

Modify string by dropping off the supplied prefix

Usage

print(Stringizer.chop_left("Fizz Buzz", "Fizz "))

Output

Buzz

Chop Right

Modify string by dropping off the supplied suffix

Usage

print(Stringizer.chop_left("Fizz Buzz", " Buzz"))

Output

Fizz

Split

Split string into a list of words, split based on the given delimiter

Usage

local values = Stringizer.split("Fizz:Buzz:stringizer",":")

values of type list will contain 3 values: Fizz, Buzz, stringizer

Trim

Trim whitespace from string on both left and righ sides

Usage

print(Stringizer.trim("  Fizz Buzz     ")

Output

Fizz Buzz

Trim Left

Trim whitespace from left side of string

Usage

print(Stringizer.trim("  Fizz Buzz")

Output

Fizz Buzz

Trim Right

Trim whitespace from right side of string

Usage

print(Stringizer.trim("Fizz Buzz     ")

Output

Fizz Buzz

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URL Encode

URL Encode string

Usage

print(Stringizer.url_encode("!@#$%^&*()-=_+[]\\{}|;':\",./<>?`~")

Output

%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26%2A%28%29-%3D_%2B%5B%5D%5C%7B%7D%7C%3B%27%3A%22%2C.%2F%3C%3E%3F%60~

URL Decode

URL Decode string

Usage

print(Stringizer.url_encode("%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26%2A%28%29-%3D_%2B%5B%5D%5C%7B%7D%7C%3B%27%3A%22%2C.%2F%3C%3E%3F%60~")

Output

!@#$%^&*()-=_+[]\\{}|;':\",./<>?`~

Pad Left

Pad Left side of string, pad_left(value, pad_number, value_append)

Usage

print(Stringizer.trim_left("  Fizz Buzz  "))

Output

------Fizz Buzz

Pad Right

Pad Right side of string, pad_right(value, pad_number, value_append)

Usage

print(Stringizer.pad_right("Fizz Buzz", 15, "-"))

Output

Fizz Buzz------

Pad

Pad Left & Right side of string, pad(value, pad_number, value_append)

Usage

print(Stringizer.trim("  Fizz Buzz  "))

Output

---FizzBuzz----

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Tests and Code Coverage

Requirements

All tests are written using busted.

Install busted:

$ luarocks install busted

Run All Tests:

$ busted --coverage ./spec

Code Coverage

Code coverage is done using luacov.

Install luacov:

$ luarocks install luacov

Run All Tests and check code coverage:

$ busted --coverage ./spec
$ luacov luacov.stats.out
$ cat luacov.report.out

You use the run_coverage bash script, friendly reminder you may need to make it executuable first

chomd +x run_coverage