RString: fast, lightweight, dynamic strings in C

RString is a lightweight C library providing a dynamic string data structure and related routines, making string processing manipulation quick, efficient and easy! 🧵

Caution

As development is in an early stage, usage in production code is strongly discouraged!

Goals

• Provide modern and efficient implementations of string processing routines found in other languages / standard-libraries, which the standard C library misses.

• Eliminame the need to rewrite a dynamic string structure for each new C project.

• Be easy to integrate in heavily constrained environments (e.g. embedded).

Features

• Tiny footprint 🪶.
• Reentrant design.
• Readable codebase.

API

Functions are fully documented next to their declarations in doxygen format, here is an overview of the current API:

• Initialization: rstring_init

• Cleanup & Memory Management: rstring_free, rstring_ensure_capacity

• Modification: rstring_push, rstring_push_byte, rstring_push_str, rstring_clear

• Comparison: rstring_cmp, rstring_cmp_ignore_case, rstring_cmp_str, rstring_cmp_str_ignore_case, rstring_equals, rstring_equals_ignore_case, rstring_equals_str, rstring_equals_str_ignore_case

• Search: rstring_find_first, rstring_find_first_str rstring_find_first_str_ignore_case, rstring_find_first_byte, rstring_find_last_byte

• Utility: rstring_is_empty

Building

This library uses CMake. A static build is configured by default.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Development

Quality of life developer utilities can be found in the root directory's Makefile:

• make fmt: run clang-format on all source & test files.
• make tidy: run clang-tidy on all source & test files.

Author

Ron Shabi <ron@ronsh.net>

License

MIT