str: An experimental string package
This is an experimental string package that imagines strings in Go as a complex (non-primitive) type. The purpose of it's creation is to facilitate my own private experimentation and development of an experience report to evaluate if the value added by a package like this is significant enough to warrant the complexity of its existence.
Caveats
- Use at your own risk. No stability or defect guarantees are made and, unless this experiment proves fruitful
- This project may end up abandoned.
Those caveats aside, if you choose to use this, feedback and thoughts in the form of pull requests or issues are welcome.
Using it
Declare a Str "string":
var s str.Str
s := str.Str("foobar")
fromInt := str.New(3)
fromStringer := str.New(myStringer)
fromAnything := str.New(someObject)
formatedStr := str.Newf("No need to call %s", "Sprintf")Use any of the stdlib strings.* functions as methods:
lowerAlpha := str.Str(" -abc ").TrimSpace().TrimSuffix("-")
upperAlpha := lowerAlpha.ToUpper()Use it as a HTTP request body:
resp, err: = http.Post("http://example.test.com", "text/plain", upperAlpha.Reader())Or, get it in a buffer and append it to itself:
buf := upperAlpha.Buffer()
_, err := upperAlpha.WriteTo(buf)Or, start a list of Strs and play with it:
slice := str.Slice(lowerAlpha, upperAlpha)
slice = slice.Append("somethingElse")
slice = slice.Append("x", "y").AppendAny(3.14159).Remove(0).RemoveStr("x")
slice.Sort()
if slice.Contains("x") {
panic("I removed x!")
}Future
- TODO: Further unit tests will be added if the experiment has initial positive returns.
- TODO: Better comments will be added if the experiment has initial positive returns.