antirez/sds

Features

• Binary-Safe String Buffers - Provides a binary-safe string implementation that supports null bytes and special characters in C.
• Dynamic String Management - Implements a comprehensive system for creating and manipulating heap-allocated, growable, binary-safe strings.
• String Header Lengths - Stores string length in a prefix header to allow constant-time retrieval without scanning for null bytes.
• C Memory Management - Handles dynamic memory for text and binary data in C to prevent manual buffer overflows.
• Null-Terminated String Buffers - Maintains null terminators at the end of buffers to ensure compatibility with standard C string functions.
• Constant-Time Length Retrieval - Provides constant-time length retrieval by storing the string length in a prefix header.
• Dynamic String Libraries - Provides a comprehensive C library for managing heap-allocated, binary-safe strings with automatic length tracking.
• C-Compatible String Conversions - Ensures all dynamic strings are null-terminated for seamless compatibility with standard C string functions.
• String Concatenation Operations - Provides efficient operations to append binary data, null-terminated strings, or zero-padded bytes to dynamic buffers.
• Buffer Modifiers - Provides utilities for modifying memory buffers directly to perform trimming and cropping without new allocations.
• Custom Memory Allocators - Allows integration with specific heap management functions to control how string memory is allocated and freed.
• Over-Allocation Strategies - Allocates more memory than immediately needed to reduce the number of reallocation calls during string growth.
• C String Formatting Libraries - Offers optimized alternatives to standard library print functions for constructing formatted strings in C.
• Custom Allocator Hooks - Provides interchangeable function pointers for allocation and freeing to enable custom memory managers.
• Optimized String Formatting - Offers optimized alternatives to standard print functions to reduce execution overhead during string construction.
• Safe String Copy Functions - Allows replacing string contents while reusing existing memory allocations to prevent unnecessary overflows and overhead.
• String Formatting Utilities - Provides utilities to append formatted text using style specifiers and efficient integer-to-string conversion.
• String Manipulation - Ships an optimized toolkit for concatenating, trimming, and tokenizing strings within C applications.
• Range Extraction - Supports cropping strings to specified ranges using absolute or negative offsets from the end.
• String Trimming - Removes specified characters from the start and end of strings without allocating additional memory.
• String Joining - Implements utilities for combining an array of strings into a single sequence using a specified delimiter.
• String Tokenization - Implements functions for splitting strings into substrings and trimming whitespace for data processing.
• Build Systems - A simple, dynamic string library compatible with standard C strings.
• Development Utilities - Simple dynamic string library for C.
• General Utilities - Simple dynamic strings library for C.
• String Manipulation - Dynamic string library compatible with standard C functions.
• Windows Environments - Listed in the “Windows Environments” section of the Awesome C awesome list.

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