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------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- The Agda standard library
--
-- Strings: builtin type and basic operations
------------------------------------------------------------------------

{-# OPTIONS --cubical-compatible --safe #-}

module Data.String.Base where

open import Level using (zero)
open import Data.Bool.Base using (true; false)
open import Data.Char.Base as Char using (Char)
open import Data.List.Base as List using (List; [_]; _∷_; [])
open import Data.List.NonEmpty.Base as NE using (List⁺)
open import Data.List.Relation.Binary.Pointwise.Base using (Pointwise)
open import Data.List.Relation.Binary.Lex.Core using (Lex-<; Lex-≤)
open import Data.Maybe.Base as Maybe using (Maybe)
open import Data.Nat.Base using (; _∸_; ⌊_/2⌋; ⌈_/2⌉)
open import Data.Product using (proj₁; proj₂)
open import Function.Base using (_on_; _∘′_; _∘_)
open import Relation.Binary.Core using (Rel)
open import Relation.Binary.PropositionalEquality.Core using (_≡_; refl)
open import Relation.Unary using (Pred; Decidable)
open import Relation.Nullary using (does)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- From Agda.Builtin: type and renamed primitives

-- Note that we do not re-export primStringAppend because we want to
-- give it an infix definition and be able to assign it a level.

import Agda.Builtin.String as String

open String public using ( String )
  renaming
  ( primStringUncons   to uncons
  ; primStringToList   to toList
  ; primStringFromList to fromList
  ; primShowString     to show
  )

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Relations

-- Pointwise equality on Strings

infix 4 _≈_
_≈_ : Rel String zero
_≈_ = Pointwise _≡_ on toList

-- Lexicographic ordering on Strings

infix 4 _<_
_<_ : Rel String zero
_<_ = Lex-< _≡_ Char._<_ on toList

infix 4 _≤_
_≤_ : Rel String zero
_≤_ = Lex-≤ _≡_ Char._<_ on toList

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Operations

-- List-like operations

head : String  Maybe Char
head = Maybe.map proj₁ ∘′ uncons

tail : String  Maybe String
tail = Maybe.map proj₂ ∘′ uncons

-- Additional conversion functions

fromChar : Char  String
fromChar = fromList ∘′ [_]

fromList⁺ : List⁺ Char  String
fromList⁺ = fromList ∘′ NE.toList

-- List-like functions

infixr 5 _++_
_++_ : String  String  String
_++_ = String.primStringAppend

length : String  
length = List.length  toList

replicate :   Char  String
replicate n = fromList  List.replicate n

concat : List String  String
concat = List.foldr _++_ ""

intersperse : String  List String  String
intersperse sep = concat ∘′ (List.intersperse sep)

unwords : List String  String
unwords = intersperse " "

unlines : List String  String
unlines = intersperse "\n"

parens : String  String
parens s = "(" ++ s ++ ")"

braces : String  String
braces s = "{" ++ s ++ "}"

-- append that also introduces spaces, if necessary
infixr 5 _<+>_
_<+>_ : String  String  String
"" <+> b = b
a <+> "" = a
a <+> b = a ++ " " ++ b

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Padding

-- Each one of the padding functions should verify the following
-- invariant:
--   If length str ≤ n then length (padLeft c n str) ≡ n
--   and otherwise padLeft c n str ≡ str.

-- Appending an empty string is expensive (append for Haskell's
-- Text creates a fresh Text value in which both contents are
-- copied) so we precompute `n ∸ length str` and check whether
-- it is equal to 0.

padLeft : Char    String  String
padLeft c n str with n  length str
... | 0 = str
... | l = replicate l c ++ str

padRight : Char    String  String
padRight c n str with n  length str
... | 0 = str
... | l = str ++ replicate l c

padBoth : Char  Char    String  String
padBoth cₗ cᵣ n str with n  length str
... | 0 = str
... | l = replicate  l /2⌋ cₗ ++ str ++ replicate  l /2⌉ cᵣ

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Alignment

-- We can align a String left, center or right in a column of a given
-- width by padding it with whitespace.

data Alignment : Set where
  Left Center Right : Alignment

fromAlignment : Alignment    String  String
fromAlignment Left   = padRight ' '
fromAlignment Center = padBoth ' ' ' '
fromAlignment Right  = padLeft ' '