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League --- Localization, Internationalization and Globalization
Strings and Cursors
The type Universal_String is declared in the package League.Strings. It represents string of Unicode characters. Two conversion operations To_Universal_String and To_Wide_Wide_String allow conversion between Universal_String and Wide_Wide_String. Set of overloaded concatenation operators --- "&" --- provides concatenation operations between Universal_String, Universal_Character, Wide_Wide_String and Wide_Wide_Character and returns Universal_String. See following example:
with Ada.Wide_Wide_Text_IO; use Ada.Wide_Wide_Text_IO; with League.Strings; use League.String; procedure Example is S : Universal_String; begin S := To_Universal_String ("Hello"); S := S & ','; S := S & " world"; Put_Line (S.To_Wide_Wide_String); end Example;
Cursors
It is possible to use usual loop for iteration:
procedure Iterator (S : Universal_String) is C : Universal_Character; begin for J in 1 .. S.Length loop C := S.Element (J); end loop; end Iterator;
Additionally, several kinds of cursors are available:
- Character_Cursor --- iterates over each character in the string;
- Grapheme_Cluster_Cursor --- iterates over grapheme clusters (sequence of character represented as one character for user) in the string.
Iteration loop with cursor:
procedure Iterator (S : Universal_String) is C : Universal_String; J : Grapheme_Cluster_Cursor := First (S); begin while not J.Has_Element loop C := J.Element; J.Next; end loop; end Iterator;
Equivalence and compare
There are several kinds of important equivalence for strings. "Default" equivalence and compare are based on binary order of code points.
Collation
Collation is a same thing as comparison, but it result is more user friendly. Collation also can be tailored by the current locale. Comparison using collation is divided into two steps --- construction of sort keys and compare them. Following example show difference between binary comparison and collation:
with Ada.Wide_Wide_Text_IO; use Ada.Wide_Wide_Text_IO; with League.Strings; use League.Strings; procedure Collation is S1 : Universal_String := To_Universal_String ("ёж"); S2 : Universal_String := To_Universal_String ("ель"); K1 : Sort_Key := S1.Collation; K2 : Sort_Key := S2.Collation; begin if S1 < S2 then Put_Line ("Binary comparison: less"); elsif S1 = S2 then Put_Line ("Binary comparison: equal"); else Put_Line ("Binary comparison: greater"); end case; if K1 < K2 then Put_Line ("Collation: less"); elsif K1 = K2 then Put_Line ("Collation: equal"); else Put_Line ("Collation: greater"); end if; end Collation;
Case conversions and case folding
It is possible to convert case of the all characters in the string and do case folding with To_Lowercase, To_Uppercase and To_Casefold functions.