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1/* search.h -- Structure used to search large bodies of text, with bounds.
2 $Id: search.h,v 1.3 2004/04/11 17:56:46 karl Exp $
3
4 Copyright (C) 1993, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
10
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
19
20 Written by Brian Fox (bfox@ai.mit.edu). */
21
22/* The search functions take two arguments:
23
24 1) a string to search for, and
25
26 2) a pointer to a SEARCH_BINDING which contains the buffer, start,
27 and end of the search.
28
29 They return a long, which is the offset from the start of the buffer
30 at which the match was found. An offset of -1 indicates failure. */
31
32#ifndef INFO_SEARCH_H
33#define INFO_SEARCH_H
34
35typedef struct {
36 char *buffer; /* The buffer of text to search. */
37 long start; /* Offset of the start of the search. */
38 long end; /* Offset of the end of the searh. */
39 int flags; /* Flags controlling the type of search. */
40} SEARCH_BINDING;
41
42#define S_FoldCase 0x01 /* Set means fold case in searches. */
43#define S_SkipDest 0x02 /* Set means return pointing after the dest. */
44
45SEARCH_BINDING *make_binding (char *buffer, long int start, long int end);
46SEARCH_BINDING *copy_binding (SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
47extern long search_forward (char *string, SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
48extern long search_backward (char *input_string, SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
49extern long search (char *string, SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
50extern int looking_at (char *string, SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
51
52/* Note that STRING_IN_LINE () always returns the offset of the 1st character
53 after the string. */
54extern int string_in_line (char *string, char *line);
55
56/* Function names that start with "skip" are passed a string, and return
57 an offset from the start of that string. Function names that start
58 with "find" are passed a SEARCH_BINDING, and return an absolute position
59 marker of the item being searched for. "Find" functions return a value
60 of -1 if the item being looked for couldn't be found. */
61extern int skip_whitespace (char *string);
62extern int skip_non_whitespace (char *string);
63extern int skip_whitespace_and_newlines (char *string);
64extern int skip_line (char *string);
65extern int skip_node_characters (char *string, int newlines_okay);
66extern int skip_node_separator (char *body);
67
68#define DONT_SKIP_NEWLINES 0
69#define SKIP_NEWLINES 1
70
71extern long find_node_separator (SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
72extern long find_tags_table (SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
73extern long find_node_in_binding (char *nodename, SEARCH_BINDING *binding);
74
75#endif /* not INFO_SEARCH_H */
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