shotishu / xstrings

xstrings: A collection of useful string functions for Go.

xstrings

Go package xstrings is a collection of string functions, which are widely used in other languages but absent in Go package strings.

All functions are well tested and carefully tuned for performance.

Propose a new function

Please review contributing guideline and create new issue to state why it should be included.

Install

Use go get to install this library.

go get github.com/huandu/xstrings

API document

See GoDoc for full document.

Function list

Go functions have a unique naming style. One, who has experience in other language but new in Go, may have difficulties to find out right string function to use.

Here is a list of functions in strings and xstrings with enough extra information about how to map these functions to their friends in other languages. Hope this list could be helpful for fresh gophers.

Package xstrings functions

Keep this table sorted by Function in ascending order.

Function	Friends	#
Center	str.center in Python; String#center in Ruby	#30
Count	String#count in Ruby	#16
Delete	String#delete in Ruby	#17
ExpandTabs	str.expandtabs in Python	#27
FirstRuneToLower	lcfirst in PHP or Perl	#15
FirstRuneToUpper	String#capitalize in Ruby; ucfirst in PHP or Perl	#15
Insert	String#insert in Ruby	#18
LastPartition	str.rpartition in Python; String#rpartition in Ruby	#19
LeftJustify	str.ljust in Python; String#ljust in Ruby	#28
Len	mb_strlen in PHP	#23
Partition	str.partition in Python; String#partition in Ruby	#10
Reverse	String#reverse in Ruby; strrev in PHP; reverse in Perl	#7
RightJustify	str.rjust in Python; String#rjust in Ruby	#29
RuneWidth	-	#27
Scrub	String#scrub in Ruby	#20
Shuffle	str_shuffle in PHP	#13
ShuffleSource	str_shuffle in PHP	#13
Slice	mb_substr in PHP	#9
Squeeze	String#squeeze in Ruby	#11
Successor	String#succ or String#next in Ruby	#22
SwapCase	str.swapcase in Python; String#swapcase in Ruby	#12
ToCamelCase	String#camelize in RoR	#1
ToSnakeCase	String#underscore in RoR	#1
Translate	str.translate in Python; String#tr in Ruby; strtr in PHP; tr/// in Perl	#21
Width	mb_strwidth in PHP	#26
WordCount	str_word_count in PHP	#14
WordSplit	-	#14

Package strings functions

Keep this table sorted by Function in ascending order.

Function	Friends
Contains	String#include? in Ruby
ContainsAny	-
ContainsRune	-
Count	str.count in Python; substr_count in PHP
EqualFold	stricmp in PHP; String#casecmp in Ruby
Fields	str.split in Python; split in Perl; String#split in Ruby
FieldsFunc	-
HasPrefix	str.startswith in Python; String#start_with? in Ruby
HasSuffix	str.endswith in Python; String#end_with? in Ruby
Index	str.index in Python; String#index in Ruby; strpos in PHP; index in Perl
IndexAny	-
IndexByte	-
IndexFunc	-
IndexRune	-
Join	str.join in Python; Array#join in Ruby; implode in PHP; join in Perl
LastIndex	str.rindex in Python; String#rindex; strrpos in PHP; rindex in Perl
LastIndexAny	-
LastIndexFunc	-
Map	String#each_codepoint in Ruby
Repeat	operator * in Python and Ruby; str_repeat in PHP
Replace	str.replace in Python; String#sub in Ruby; str_replace in PHP
Split	str.split in Python; String#split in Ruby; explode in PHP; split in Perl
SplitAfter	-
SplitAfterN	-
SplitN	str.split in Python; String#split in Ruby; explode in PHP; split in Perl
Title	str.title in Python
ToLower	str.lower in Python; String#downcase in Ruby; strtolower in PHP; lc in Perl
ToLowerSpecial	-
ToTitle	-
ToTitleSpecial	-
ToUpper	str.upper in Python; String#upcase in Ruby; strtoupper in PHP; uc in Perl
ToUpperSpecial	-
Trim	str.strip in Python; String#strip in Ruby; trim in PHP
TrimFunc	-
TrimLeft	str.lstrip in Python; String#lstrip in Ruby; ltrim in PHP
TrimLeftFunc	-
TrimPrefix	-
TrimRight	str.rstrip in Python; String#rstrip in Ruby; rtrim in PHP
TrimRightFunc	-
TrimSpace	str.strip in Python; String#strip in Ruby; trim in PHP
TrimSuffix	String#chomp in Ruby; chomp in Perl

License

This library is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for details.