json-validator/include/jvalidate/detail/string.h

/**
 * Utility functions for managing strings, specifically because C++'s
 * std::string/std::regex is not well suited for UTF8 comprehensions.
 */
#pragma once
#include <jvalidate/_config.h>

#include <cstring>

#if JVALIDATE_HAS_ICU
#include <unicode/brkiter.h>
#include <unicode/unistr.h>
#endif

namespace jvalidate::detail {
/**
 * @brief Calclates the string-length of the argument, treating multi-byte
 * characters and unicode graphemes as single characters (which std::string
 * cannot do).
 *
 * @param arg Any UTF8 compatible string (including a standard ASCII string)
 *
 * @returns A number no greater than arg.length(), depending on the number of
 * graphemes/codepoints in the string.
 */
#if JVALIDATE_HAS_ICU
inline size_t length(std::string_view arg) {
  icu::UnicodeString ucs = icu::UnicodeString::fromUTF8(icu::StringPiece(arg));
  return ucs.countChar32();
}
#else

inline size_t length(std::string_view arg) { return arg.length(); }
#endif
}