How to code Z-Function of string?
WebFreak001
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Fri Mar 27 06:57:38 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 20:08:39 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 19:34:08 UTC, Quantium wrote:
>> 1. How can I make string ONLY char[] (Not immutable)
>
> You can use .dup to make a mutable copy of an array.
>
> ```
> char[] a = "abc".dup;
> ```
extending on this: if you want to work on single unicode
codepoints instead of utf 8 encoded bytes, you can use:
char[] a = "abc".to!(char[]); // utf8 encoded bytes - single
bytes may at most cover basic ASCII characters
wchar[] a = "abc".to!(wchar[]); // utf16 encoded bytes - each
element is ushort size, covers all characters of the Basic
Multilingual Plane, and otherwise uses surrogate pairs which you
might want to check for. Emoji span 2 code units for example
dchar[] a = "abc".to!(dchar[]); // utf32 - each element is uint,
covers all possible code points
however note that code points may not cover all characters in all
languages. Characters might be composed of multiple code points,
even relatively innocent looking characters like ä may be
composited of an umlaut code point and the character 'a'
Basically before doing any operations on your text, I would
specify and check for rules to restrict what your input can be.
For example if you only want characters from certain ranges such
as latin characters, restrict the user from entering anything
else. std.uni can help you greatly with working with these ranges
and std.utf can help you decode utf8/utf16/utf32 if you choose
not to convert to char[], wchar[] or dchar[] before.
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