freebsd-dev/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/search.h
1994-09-13 13:51:34 +00:00

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/* search.h -- Structure used to search large bodies of text, with bounds. */
/* This file is part of GNU Info, a program for reading online documentation
stored in Info format.
Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Written by Brian Fox (bfox@ai.mit.edu). */
/* The search functions take two arguments:
1) a string to search for, and
2) a pointer to a SEARCH_BINDING which contains the buffer, start,
and end of the search.
They return a long, which is the offset from the start of the buffer
at which the match was found. An offset of -1 indicates failure. */
#ifndef _SEARCH_H_
#define _SEARCH_H_
typedef struct {
char *buffer; /* The buffer of text to search. */
long start; /* Offset of the start of the search. */
long end; /* Offset of the end of the searh. */
int flags; /* Flags controlling the type of search. */
} SEARCH_BINDING;
#define S_FoldCase 0x01 /* Set means fold case in searches. */
#define S_SkipDest 0x02 /* Set means return pointing after the dest. */
SEARCH_BINDING *make_binding (), *copy_binding ();
extern long search_forward (), search_backward (), search ();
extern int looking_at ();
/* Note that STRING_IN_LINE () always returns the offset of the 1st character
after the string. */
extern int string_in_line ();
/* Unix doesn't have stricmp () functions. */
/* strcmp (), but caseless. */
extern int stricmp ();
/* Compare at most COUNT characters from STRING1 to STRING2. Case
doesn't matter. */
extern int strnicmp ();
/* Function names that start with "skip" are passed a string, and return
an offset from the start of that string. Function names that start
with "find" are passed a SEARCH_BINDING, and return an absolute position
marker of the item being searched for. "Find" functions return a value
of -1 if the item being looked for couldn't be found. */
extern int skip_whitespace (), skip_non_whitespace ();
extern int skip_whitespace_and_newlines (), skip_line ();
extern int skip_node_characters (), skip_node_separator ();
#define DONT_SKIP_NEWLINES 0
#define SKIP_NEWLINES 1
extern long find_node_separator (), find_tags_table ();
extern long find_node_in_binding ();
#endif /* !_SEARCH_H_ */