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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] string-list: introduce `string_list_split_in_place_multi()`t
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 22:38:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZESaFXMcP6mhtBOv@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230422111213.GB2969939@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 07:12:13AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:18:43PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
>
> > Introduce a variant of the `string_list_split_in_place()` function that
> > takes a string of accepted delimiters.
> >
> > By contrast to its cousin `string_list_split_in_place()` which splits
> > the given string at every instance of the single character `delim`, the
> > `_multi` variant splits the given string any any character appearing in
> > the string `delim`.
> >
> > Like `strtok()`, the `_multi` variant skips past sequential delimiting
> > characters. For example:
> >
> >     string_list_split_in_place(&xs, xstrdup("foo::bar::baz"), ":", -1);
> >
> > would place in `xs` the elements "foo", "bar", and "baz".
>
> I have mixed feelings on this.

Hmm. I implemented it this way partially after reading your suggestion
in [1], but also to allow using `string_list_split_in_place()` as a
strict replacement for strtok().

And I agree that for the existing users of strtok(), which are all in the
test helpers, this probably doesn't matter much either way. Though I
feel like since we are banning strtok() over the whole tree, that we
should provide a suitable replacement at the time we ban strtok(), not
at the time somebody needs to rely on its non-empty fields behavior.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20230418102320.GB508219@coredump.intra.peff.net/

> Obviously one solution is to add the "runs" option to all variants. But
> I'd be hesitant to burden existing callers. So I'd propose one of:
>
>   1. Make your _1() function public, with a name like _with_options() or
>      something (though the function name is sadly already quite long).
>      Leave string_list_split_in_place() as a wrapper that behaves as
>      now, and have the few new callers use the with_options() variant.

I think that in general I'd prefer (2) to avoid polluting the list of
declarations in string-list.h, but in this case I think that in this
case it is the right thing to do.

Thanks,
Taylor

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-23  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-13 23:31 [PATCH 0/5] banned: mark `strok()`, `strtok_r()` as banned Taylor Blau
2023-04-13 23:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] string-list: introduce `string_list_split_in_place_multi()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 10:10   ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 17:08     ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-13 23:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] t/helper/test-hashmap.c: avoid using `strtok()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 10:23   ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 18:06     ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-13 23:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] t/helper/test-oidmap.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-13 23:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] t/helper/test-json-writer.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-13 23:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] banned.h: mark `strtok()`, `strtok_r()` as banned Taylor Blau
2023-04-14  1:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-14  2:08     ` Chris Torek
2023-04-14 13:41     ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] banned: mark `strok()` " Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] string-list: introduce `string_list_split_in_place_multi()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18 20:54       ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-22 11:12     ` Jeff King
2023-04-22 15:53       ` René Scharfe
2023-04-23  0:35         ` Jeff King
2023-04-24 16:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-23  2:38       ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2023-04-23  2:40         ` [PATCH v2 1/6] string-list: introduce `string_list_split_in_place_multi()`t Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] string-list: introduce `string_list_setlen()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-22 11:14     ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] t/helper/test-hashmap.c: avoid using `strtok()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-22 11:16     ` Jeff King
2023-04-24 21:19       ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] t/helper/test-oidmap.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] t/helper/test-json-writer.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-18 19:18   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] banned.h: mark `strtok()` as banned Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] banned: mark `strok()`, `strtok_r()` " Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 1/6] string-list: multi-delimiter `string_list_split_in_place()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 2/6] string-list: introduce `string_list_setlen()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-25  6:21     ` Jeff King
2023-04-25 21:00       ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 3/6] t/helper/test-hashmap.c: avoid using `strtok()` Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 4/6] t/helper/test-oidmap.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 5/6] t/helper/test-json-writer.c: " Taylor Blau
2023-04-25 13:57     ` Jeff Hostetler
2023-04-24 22:20   ` [PATCH v3 6/6] banned.h: mark `strtok()` and `strtok_r()` as banned Taylor Blau
2023-04-24 22:25     ` Chris Torek
2023-04-24 23:00       ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-25  6:26     ` Jeff King
2023-04-25 21:02       ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-25  6:27   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] banned: mark `strok()`, " Jeff King
2023-04-25 21:03     ` Taylor Blau

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