string-list: multi-delimiter `string_list_split_in_place()`
Enhance `string_list_split_in_place()` to accept multiple characters as
delimiters instead of a single character.
Instead of using `strchr(2)` to locate the first occurrence of the given
delimiter character, `string_list_split_in_place_multi()` uses
`strcspn(2)` to move past the initial segment of characters comprised of
any characters in the delimiting set.
When only a single delimiting character is provided, `strpbrk(2)` (which
is implemented with `strcspn(2)`) has equivalent performance to
`strchr(2)`. Modern `strcspn(2)` implementations treat an empty
delimiter or the singleton delimiter as a special case and fall back to
calling strchrnul(). Both glibc[1] and musl[2] implement `strcspn(2)`
this way.
This change is one step to removing `strtok(2)` from the tree. Note that
`string_list_split_in_place()` is not a strict replacement for
`strtok()`, since it will happily turn sequential delimiter characters
into empty entries in the resulting string_list. For example:
string_list_split_in_place(&xs, "foo:;:bar:;:baz", ":;", -1)
would yield a string list of:
["foo", "", "", "bar", "", "", "baz"]
Callers that wish to emulate the behavior of strtok(2) more directly
should call `string_list_remove_empty_items()` after splitting.
To avoid regressions for the new multi-character delimter cases, update
t0063 in this patch as well.
[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=string/strcspn.c;hb=glibc-2.37#l35
[2]: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/string/strcspn.c?h=v1.2.3#n11
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 78b0fdd..378a024 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int parse_dirstat_params(struct diff_options *options, const char *params
int i;
if (*params_copy)
- string_list_split_in_place(¶ms, params_copy, ',', -1);
+ string_list_split_in_place(¶ms, params_copy, ",", -1);
for (i = 0; i < params.nr; i++) {
const char *p = params.items[i].string;
if (!strcmp(p, "changes")) {
