QgsStringUtils Class Reference

Utility functions for working with strings. More...

#include <qgsstringutils.h>

Public Types
enum	Capitalization {   MixedCase = QFont::MixedCase, AllUppercase = QFont::AllUppercase, AllLowercase = QFont::AllLowercase, ForceFirstLetterToCapital = QFont::Capitalize,   TitleCase = QFont::Capitalize + 1000 }
	Capitalization options. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static QString	ampersandEncode (const QString &string)
	Makes a raw string safe for inclusion as a HTML/XML string literal. More...
static QString	capitalize (const QString &string, Capitalization capitalization)
	Converts a string by applying capitalization rules to the string. More...
static int	hammingDistance (const QString &string1, const QString &string2, bool caseSensitive=false)
	Returns the Hamming distance between two strings. More...
static QString	insertLinks (const QString &string, bool *foundLinks=nullptr)
	Returns a string with any URL (e.g., http(s)/ftp) and mailto: text converted to valid HTML <a ...> links. More...
static int	levenshteinDistance (const QString &string1, const QString &string2, bool caseSensitive=false)
	Returns the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings. More...
static QString	longestCommonSubstring (const QString &string1, const QString &string2, bool caseSensitive=false)
	Returns the longest common substring between two strings. More...
static QString	soundex (const QString &string)
	Returns the Soundex representation of a string. More...

Detailed Description

Utility functions for working with strings.

Since

QGIS 2.11

Definition at line 180 of file qgsstringutils.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

Capitalization

enum QgsStringUtils::Capitalization

Capitalization options.

Enumerator
MixedCase	Mixed case, ie no change.
AllUppercase	Convert all characters to uppercase.
AllLowercase	Convert all characters to lowercase.
ForceFirstLetterToCapital	Convert just the first letter of each word to uppercase, leave the rest untouched.
TitleCase	Simple title case conversion - does not fully grammatically parse the text and uses simple rules only. Note that this method does not convert any characters to lowercase, it only uppercases required letters. Callers must ensure that input strings are already lowercased.

Definition at line 185 of file qgsstringutils.h.

Member Function Documentation

ampersandEncode()

QString QgsStringUtils::ampersandEncode ( const QString &  string )

static

Makes a raw string safe for inclusion as a HTML/XML string literal.

This includes replacing '<' with '<', '>' with '>', '&' with '&amp', and any extended unicode characters with the XML style &#233; encoded versions of these characters.

Since

QGIS 3.2

Definition at line 105 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

capitalize()

QString QgsStringUtils::capitalize ( const QString &  string, QgsStringUtils::Capitalization  capitalization  )

static

Converts a string by applying capitalization rules to the string.

Parameters

string	input string
capitalization	capitalization type to apply

Returns

capitalized string

Since

QGIS 3.0

Definition at line 23 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

hammingDistance()

int QgsStringUtils::hammingDistance ( const QString &  string1, const QString &  string2, bool  caseSensitive = false  )

static

Returns the Hamming distance between two strings.

This equates to the number of characters at corresponding positions within the input strings where the characters are different. The input strings must be the same length.

Parameters

string1	first string
string2	second string
caseSensitive	set to true for case sensitive comparison

Returns

Hamming distance between strings, or -1 if strings are different lengths.

Definition at line 270 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

insertLinks()

QString QgsStringUtils::insertLinks ( const QString &  string, bool *  foundLinks = nullptr  )

static

Returns a string with any URL (e.g., http(s)/ftp) and mailto: text converted to valid HTML <a ...> links.

Parameters

string	string to insert links into
foundLinks	if specified, will be set to true if any links were inserted into the string

Returns

string with inserted links

Since

QGIS 3.0

Definition at line 404 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

levenshteinDistance()

int QgsStringUtils::levenshteinDistance ( const QString &  string1, const QString &  string2, bool  caseSensitive = false  )

static

Returns the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings.

This equates to the minimum number of character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one string to another.

Parameters

string1	first string
string2	second string
caseSensitive	set to true for case sensitive comparison

Returns

edit distance. Lower distances indicate more similar strings.

Definition at line 125 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

longestCommonSubstring()

QString QgsStringUtils::longestCommonSubstring ( const QString &  string1, const QString &  string2, bool  caseSensitive = false  )

static

Returns the longest common substring between two strings.

This substring is the longest string that is a substring of the two input strings. For example, the longest common substring of "ABABC" and "BABCA" is "ABC".

Parameters

string1	first string
string2	second string
caseSensitive	set to true for case sensitive comparison

Returns

longest common substring

Definition at line 207 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

soundex()

QString QgsStringUtils::soundex ( const QString &  string )

static

Returns the Soundex representation of a string.

Soundex is a phonetic matching algorithm, so strings with similar sounds should be represented by the same Soundex code.

Parameters

string

input string

Returns

4 letter Soundex code

Definition at line 309 of file qgsstringutils.cpp.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

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• /tmp/buildd/qgis-3.2.0+99unstable/src/core/qgsstringutils.cpp