yonaba / allen

An utility library to manipulate strings in Lua

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allen's Issues

Number formatting

Implement a number formatting function, similar to Underscore.string's numberFormat.

Docs?

Hey,

I see that you removed the docs in 4889493

Do you have any ETA on when you'll add the updated docs you mentioned in the commit?

Thanks for this library, very useful!

Aliases should be optional

Library function aliases should be an optional feature.
Make them available by default, but setting a specific global would make them undeclared when requiring the library.

_.import Issue

It seems _.import does not work as documented:

local _ = require('Allen')
_.import()
print(string.capitalize('hello'))

Results in

lua: test.lua:3: attempt to call field 'capitalize' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
        test.lua:3: in main chunk
        [C]: in ?

on Lua 5.2.3.

The default context could be changed to _G.string instead of _G, or maybe the line in the documentation could be changed to _.import(string) instead of _.import().

Fix _.humanize

_.humanize method fails in its current state of implementation on trivial cases. See specs.

Context and noConflict feature when using import

_.import method should copy in a specific context passed in as argument. In case the context is not provided, defaults to the global environnement.
It should also take a noConflict argument to prevent from overwriting already existing keys in the given context.

Simpler _.isEmail checking, not any RFC compliant

Trying to meet any RFC standards sounds beyond the purposes we need in here.
Maybe we should provide a simple _.isEmail function, that would just check the formatting of the input.
The pattern [A-Za-z0-9%.%%%+%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9%.%%%+%-]+%.%w%w%w?%w? seems to be enough to meet those requirements.

string.rep causes infinite loop

string.rep calls itself, causing an infinite loop
This is what I did to fix it, feel free to do it your own way:

local oldRep = string.rep
function _.rep(str,count,sep) return oldRep( (str .. (sep or ' ')), (count or 2) ) end