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Extensible string buffers.

This module implements string buffers that automatically expand as necessary. It provides accumulative concatenation of strings in quasi-linear time (instead of quadratic time when strings are concatenated pairwise).

  • author Pierre Weis (Base module)
  • author Xavier Leroy (Base module)
  • author David Teller
  • author Dawid Toton
type t = Buffer.t

The abstract type of buffers.

val create : int -> t

create n returns a fresh buffer, initially empty. The n parameter is the initial size of the internal string that holds the buffer contents. That string is automatically reallocated when more than n characters are stored in the buffer, but shrinks back to n characters when reset is called. For best performance, n should be of the same order of magnitude as the number of characters that are expected to be stored in the buffer (for instance, 80 for a buffer that holds one output line). Nothing bad will happen if the buffer grows beyond that limit, however. In doubt, take n = 16 for instance. If n is not between 1 and Sys.max_string_length, it will be clipped to that interval.

val contents : t -> string

Return a copy of the current contents of the buffer. The buffer itself is unchanged.

val to_bytes : t -> Bytes.t

Return a copy of the current contents of the buffer. The buffer itself is unchanged.

  • since 2.3.0
val sub : t -> int -> int -> string

Buffer.sub b off len returns a copy of len bytes from the current contents of the buffer b, starting at offset off.

Raise Invalid_argument if srcoff and len do not designate a valid range of b.

val blit : t -> int -> Bytes.t -> int -> int -> unit

Buffer.blit src srcoff dst dstoff len copies len characters from the current contents of the buffer src, starting at offset srcoff to string dst, starting at character dstoff.

  • raises Invalid_argument

    if srcoff and len do not designate a valid substring of src, or if dstoff and len do not designate a valid substring of dst.

  • since 3.11.2
val nth : t -> int -> char

get the n-th character of the buffer.

val length : t -> int

Return the number of characters currently contained in the buffer.

val clear : t -> unit

Empty the buffer.

val reset : t -> unit

Empty the buffer and deallocate the internal string holding the buffer contents, replacing it with the initial internal string of length n that was allocated by Buffer.create n. For long-lived buffers that may have grown a lot, reset allows faster reclamation of the space used by the buffer.

val add_char : t -> char -> unit

add_char b c appends the character c at the end of the buffer b.

val add_string : t -> string -> unit

add_string b s appends the string s at the end of the buffer b.

val add_bytes : t -> Bytes.t -> unit

add_bytes b s appends the string s at the end of the buffer b.

  • since 2.3.0
val add_substring : t -> string -> int -> int -> unit

add_substring b s ofs len takes len characters from offset ofs in string s and appends them at the end of the buffer b.

val add_subbytes : t -> Bytes.t -> int -> int -> unit

add_subbytes b s ofs len takes len characters from offset ofs in byte sequence s and appends them at the end of the buffer b.

  • since 2.3.0
val add_substitute : t -> (string -> string) -> string -> unit

add_substitute b f s appends the string pattern s at the end of the buffer b with substitution. The substitution process looks for variables into the pattern and substitutes each variable name by its value, as obtained by applying the mapping f to the variable name. Inside the string pattern, a variable name immediately follows a non-escaped $ character and is one of the following:

  • a non empty sequence of alphanumeric or _ characters,
  • an arbitrary sequence of characters enclosed by a pair of matching parentheses or curly brackets. An escaped $ character is a $ that immediately follows a backslash character; it then stands for a plain $.
  • raises Not_found

    if the closing character of a parenthesized variable cannot be found.

val add_buffer : t -> t -> unit

add_buffer b1 b2 appends the current contents of buffer b2 at the end of buffer b1. b2 is not modified.

val add_input : t -> BatInnerIO.input -> int -> unit

add_input b ic n reads exactly n character from the input ic and stores them at the end of buffer b.

  • raises End_of_file

    if the channel contains fewer than n characters.

val add_channel : t -> BatInnerIO.input -> int -> unit

@obsolete replaced by add_input

val output_buffer : t -> string BatInnerIO.output

output_buffer b creates an output channel that writes to that buffer, and when closed, returns the contents of the buffer.

val truncate : t -> int -> unit

truncate b len truncates the length of b to len Note: the internal byte sequence is not shortened. Raises Invalid_argument if len < 0 or len > length b.

  • since 2.7.0 and OCaml 4.05.0
val add_utf_8_uchar : t -> Uchar.t -> unit

add_utf_8_uchar b u appends the UTF-8 encoding of u at the end of buffer b.

  • since 2.8.0 and OCaml 4.06.0
val add_utf_16le_uchar : t -> Uchar.t -> unit

add_utf_16le_uchar b u appends the UTF-16LE encoding of u at the end of buffer b.

  • since 2.8.0 and OCaml 4.06.0
val add_utf_16be_uchar : t -> Uchar.t -> unit

add_utf_16be_uchar b u appends the UTF-16BE encoding of u at the end of buffer b.

  • since 2.8.0 and OCaml 4.06.0
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val enum : t -> char BatEnum.t

Returns an enumeration of the characters of a buffer.

Contents of the enumeration is unspecified if the buffer is modified after the enumeration is returned.

val of_enum : char BatEnum.t -> t

Creates a buffer from a character enumeration.

val print : 'a BatInnerIO.output -> t -> unit

Iterators

val to_seq : t -> char Seq.t

Iterate on the buffer, in increasing order. Modification of the buffer during iteration is undefined behavior.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.07
val to_seqi : t -> (int * char) Seq.t

Iterate on the buffer, in increasing order, yielding indices along chars. Modification of the buffer during iteration is undefined behavior.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.07
val add_seq : t -> char Seq.t -> unit

Add chars to the buffer

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.07
val of_seq : char Seq.t -> t

Create a buffer from the generator

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.07

Binary encoding of integers

The functions in this section append binary encodings of integers to buffers.

Little-endian (resp. big-endian) encoding means that least (resp. most) significant bytes are stored first. Big-endian is also known as network byte order. Native-endian encoding is either little-endian or big-endian depending on Sys.big_endian.

32-bit and 64-bit integers are represented by the int32 and int64 types, which can be interpreted either as signed or unsigned numbers.

8-bit and 16-bit integers are represented by the int type, which has more bits than the binary encoding. Functions that encode these values truncate their inputs to their least significant bytes.

val add_uint8 : t -> int -> unit

add_uint8 b i appends a binary unsigned 8-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int8 : t -> int -> unit

add_int8 b i appends a binary signed 8-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_uint16_ne : t -> int -> unit

add_uint16_ne b i appends a binary native-endian unsigned 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_uint16_be : t -> int -> unit

add_uint16_be b i appends a binary big-endian unsigned 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_uint16_le : t -> int -> unit

add_uint16_le b i appends a binary little-endian unsigned 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int16_ne : t -> int -> unit

add_int16_ne b i appends a binary native-endian signed 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int16_be : t -> int -> unit

add_int16_be b i appends a binary big-endian signed 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int16_le : t -> int -> unit

add_int16_le b i appends a binary little-endian signed 16-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int32_ne : t -> int32 -> unit

add_int32_ne b i appends a binary native-endian 32-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int32_be : t -> int32 -> unit

add_int32_be b i appends a binary big-endian 32-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int32_le : t -> int32 -> unit

add_int32_le b i appends a binary little-endian 32-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int64_ne : t -> int64 -> unit

add_int64_ne b i appends a binary native-endian 64-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int64_be : t -> int64 -> unit

add_int64_be b i appends a binary big-endian 64-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
val add_int64_le : t -> int64 -> unit

add_int64_ne b i appends a binary little-endian 64-bit integer i to b.

  • since 2.10.0 and OCaml 4.08
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