lib/standard/string: Added copy_to_native method to Text

[nit.git] / lib / standard / string.nit

diff --git a/lib/standard/string.nit b/lib/standard/string.nit
index 0d40c3d..5e57fa4 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/standard/string.nit
+++ b/lib/standard/string.nit
@@ -882,6 +882,27 @@ abstract class Text
                return s.to_s
        end
 
+       # Copies `n` bytes from `self` at `src_offset` into `dest` starting at `dest_offset`
+       #
+       # Basically a high-level synonym of NativeString::copy_to
+       #
+       # REQUIRE: `n` must be large enough to contain `len` bytes
+       #
+       #       var ns = new NativeString(8)
+       #       "Text is String".copy_to_native(ns, 8, 2, 0)
+       #       assert ns.to_s_with_length(8) == "xt is St"
+       #
+       fun copy_to_native(dest: NativeString, n, src_offset, dest_offset: Int) do
+               var mypos = src_offset
+               var itspos = dest_offset
+               while n > 0 do
+                       dest[itspos] = self.chars[mypos]
+                       itspos += 1
+                       mypos += 1
+                       n -= 1
+               end
+       end
+
 end
 
 # All kinds of array-based text representations.
@@ -926,6 +947,10 @@ abstract class FlatText
        end
 
        redef fun flatten do return self
+
+       redef fun copy_to_native(dest, n, src_offset, dest_offset) do
+               items.copy_to(dest, n, src_offset, dest_offset)
+       end
 end
 
 # Abstract class for the SequenceRead compatible