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[PATCH 03/14] strutil: add skip_prefix_icase

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 29, 2015, 07:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20151229072204.GC8842@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20151229071847.GA8726@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Some sites that otherwise would use skip_prefix cannot do so, because it has no way to do case-insensitive comparisons. Such sites usually get around this by using strncasecmp, at the cost of having to use magic numbers. We can help them by providing a case-insensitive version of skip_prefix.

Unfortunately, we don't share any code with the original skip_prefix. Since this is performance-sensitive code, we would not want to introduce an extra "do we are about case?" conditional into the middle of the loop. We could instead use macros or another technique to generate the almost-identical implementations, but the function simply isn't long enough to merit that confusing boilerplate.

To show off the new function, we convert a simple case in log's add_header function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/log.c |  8 ++++----
 strutil.h     | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 76823e6..44c6b26 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -677,10 +677,10 @@ static void add_header(const char *value)
 	struct string_list_item *item;
 	size_t len;
 
-	if (!strncasecmp(value, "to: ", 4))
-		item = string_list_append(&extra_to, value + 4);
-	else if (!strncasecmp(value, "cc: ", 4))
-		item = string_list_append(&extra_cc, value + 4);
+	if (skip_prefix_icase(value, "to: ", &value))
+		item = string_list_append(&extra_to, value);
+	else if (skip_prefix_icase(value, "cc: ", &value))
+		item = string_list_append(&extra_cc, value);
 	else
 		item = string_list_append(&extra_hdr, value);
 
diff --git a/strutil.h b/strutil.h
index 4fa2071..bb4c02d 100644
--- a/strutil.h
+++ b/strutil.h
@@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ static inline int skip_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Identical to skip_prefix, but compare characters case-insensitively.
+ */
+static inline int skip_prefix_icase(const char *str, const char *prefix,
+				    const char **out)
+{
+	do {
+		if (!*prefix) {
+			*out = str;
+			return 1;
+		}
+	} while (tolower(*str++) == tolower(*prefix++));
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * If buf ends with suffix, return 1 and subtract the length of the suffix
  * from *len. Otherwise, return 0 and leave *len untouched.
  */
-- 
2.7.0.rc3.367.g09631da
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  3. 02/14 log: refactor add_header to drop some magic numbersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  5. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  6. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  7. 03/14 strutil: add skip_prefix_icaseJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  8. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  9. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  10. 04/14 shortlog: use skip_prefix_icase to parse "Author" linesJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineDec 31, 2015
  12. Jeff KingJan 1, 2016
  13. 05/14 shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdinJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  14. 06/14 shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printerJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  15. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  16. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  17. 07/14 shortlog: optimize "--summary" modeJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  18. 08/14 shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalizationJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  19. 09/14 shortlog: optimize out useless string listJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  20. 10/14 shortlog: change "author" variables to "ident"Jeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  21. 11/14 shortlog: allow grouping by committer identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  22. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  23. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016
  24. 12/14 trailer: factor out config readingJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  25. 13/14 trailer: add interface for parsing commit trailersJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  26. 14/14 shortlog: match commit trailers with --identJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  27. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  28. Eric SunshineJan 4, 2016
  29. Jeff KingJan 4, 2016

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