symbol.h File Reference

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Routines to manipulate encodings of symbols. More...

#include "ruby/internal/attr/nonnull.h"
#include "ruby/internal/dllexport.h"
#include "ruby/internal/encoding/encoding.h"
#include "ruby/internal/value.h"

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Functions
ID	rb_intern3 (const char *name, long len, rb_encoding *enc)
	Identical to rb_intern2(), except it additionally takes an encoding. More...
int	rb_enc_symname_p (const char *str, rb_encoding *enc)
	Identical to rb_symname_p(), except it additionally takes an encoding. More...
int	rb_enc_symname2_p (const char *name, long len, rb_encoding *enc)
	Identical to rb_enc_symname_p(), except it additionally takes the passed string's length. More...
ID	rb_check_id_cstr (const char *ptr, long len, rb_encoding *enc)
	Identical to rb_check_id(), except it takes a pointer to a memory region instead of Ruby's string. More...
VALUE	rb_check_symbol_cstr (const char *ptr, long len, rb_encoding *enc)
	Identical to rb_check_id_cstr(), except for the return type. More...

Detailed Description

Routines to manipulate encodings of symbols.

Author

Ruby developers ruby-.nosp@m.core.nosp@m.@ruby.nosp@m.-lan.nosp@m.g.org

Copyright

This file is a part of the programming language Ruby. Permission is hereby granted, to either redistribute and/or modify this file, provided that the conditions mentioned in the file COPYING are met. Consult the file for details.

Warning

Symbols prefixed with either RBIMPL or rbimpl are implementation details. Don't take them as canon. They could rapidly appear then vanish. The name (path) of this header file is also an implementation detail. Do not expect it to persist at the place it is now. Developers are free to move it anywhere anytime at will.

Note

To ruby-core: remember that this header can be possibly recursively included from extension libraries written in C++. Do not expect for instance __VA_ARGS__ is always available. We assume C99 for ruby itself but we don't assume languages of extension libraries. They could be written in C++98.

Definition in file symbol.h.

Function Documentation

rb_check_id_cstr()

ID rb_check_id_cstr	(	const char *	ptr,
		long	len,
		rb_encoding *	enc
	)

Identical to rb_check_id(), except it takes a pointer to a memory region instead of Ruby's string.

Parameters

[in]	ptr	A pointer to a memory region.
[in]	len	Number of bytes of ptr.
[in]	enc	Encoding of ptr.

Exceptions

rb_eEncodingError

ptr contains non-ASCII according to enc.

Return values

0	No such id ever existed in the history.
otherwise	The id that represents the given name.

Definition at line 1215 of file symbol.c.

Referenced by rb_deprecate_constant(), and rb_iv_get().

rb_check_symbol_cstr()

VALUE rb_check_symbol_cstr	(	const char *	ptr,
		long	len,
		rb_encoding *	enc
	)

Identical to rb_check_id_cstr(), except for the return type.

It can also be seen as a routine identical to rb_check_symbol(), except it takes a pointer to a memory region instead of Ruby's string.

Parameters

[in]	ptr	A pointer to a memory region.
[in]	len	Number of bytes of ptr.
[in]	enc	Encoding of ptr.

Exceptions

rb_eEncodingError

ptr contains non-ASCII according to enc.

Return values

RUBY_Qnil	No such id ever existed in the history.
otherwise	The id that represents the given name.

Definition at line 1226 of file symbol.c.

Referenced by rb_str_format().

rb_enc_symname2_p()

int rb_enc_symname2_p	(	const char *	name,
		long	len,
		rb_encoding *	enc
	)

Identical to rb_enc_symname_p(), except it additionally takes the passed string's length.

This is needed for strings containing NUL bytes, like in case of UTF-32.

Parameters

[in]	name	A C string to check.
[in]	len	Number of bytes of str.
[in]	enc	str's encoding.

Return values

1	It is a valid symbol name.
0	It is invalid as a symbol name.

Definition at line 414 of file symbol.c.

Referenced by rb_enc_symname_p().

rb_enc_symname_p()

int rb_enc_symname_p	(	const char *	str,
		rb_encoding *	enc
	)

Identical to rb_symname_p(), except it additionally takes an encoding.

Parameters

[in]	str	A C string to check.
[in]	enc	str's encoding.

Return values

1	It is a valid symbol name.
0	It is invalid as a symbol name.

Definition at line 211 of file symbol.c.

Referenced by rb_symname_p().

rb_intern3()

ID rb_intern3	(	const char *	name,
		long	len,
		rb_encoding *	enc
	)

Identical to rb_intern2(), except it additionally takes an encoding.

Parameters

[in]	name	The name of the id.
[in]	len	Length of name.
[in]	enc	name's encoding.

Exceptions

rb_eRuntimeError

Too many symbols.

Returns

A (possibly new) id whose value is the given name.

Note

These days Ruby internally has two kinds of symbols (static/dynamic). Symbols created using this function would become static ones; i.e. would never be garbage collected. It is up to you to avoid memory leaks. Think twice before using it.

Definition at line 752 of file symbol.c.

Referenced by rb_intern2().