Util Module

Table of Contents

• Util Module Introduction
• Release Notes
  • Util 1.8
  • Util 1.7
  • Util 1.6.2
  • Util 1.6.1
  • Util 1.6
  • Util 1.5.1
  • Util 1.5
  • Util 1.4.1
  • Util 1.4
  • Util 1.3
  • Util 1.2
  • Util 1.1
  • Util 1.0

Util Module Introduction

The Util module provides some generally-useful routines that are more suitable for writing in Qore than in C++.

To use this module, use "%requires Util" in your code.

All the public symbols in the module are defined in the Util namespace

Functions:

• Util::compare_version()
• Util::flatten()
• Util::get_byte_size()
• Util::get_exception_string()
• Util::get_marketing_byte_size()
• Util::get_random_string()
• Util::glob_to_regex()
• Util::is_int()
• Util::is_float()
• Util::is_number()
• Util::lpad()
• Util::make_uri_query()
• Util::normalize_dir()
  • Util::normalize_dir_unix()
  • Util::normalize_dir_windows()
• Util::ordinal()
• Util::parse_memory_size()
• Util::parse_ranges()
• Util::parse_to_qore_value()
• Util::parse_uri_query()
• Util::plural()
• Util::regex_escape()
• Util::rpad()
• Util::same()
• Util::slice()
• Util::tmp_location()
• Util::uniq()
• Util::zip()

Release Notes

Util 1.8

• added get_relative_path() (issue 4488)

Util 1.7

• parse_uri_query() fails if the string has newlines in it (issue 4429)
• implemented the serialize_to_string() API (issue 4428)

Util 1.6.2

• fixed a bug in parse_to_qore_value() with floats and numbers with trailing zeros (issue 4349)

Util 1.6.1

• fixed a bug in parse_memory_size() with numbers larger than 9 (issue 4198)

Util 1.6

• added the parse_memory_size() function (issue 4004)

Util 1.5.1

• fixed bugs in EVAL= expressions in parse_to_qore_value() where expressions that evaluated to integer 0 or floating-point values were returned as NOTHING (issue 3851)
• added the get_file_from_url() function

Util 1.5

• added the get_file_from_url() function

Util 1.4.1

• fixed a bug in get_exception_string() with Java exceptions (issue 3304)

Util 1.4

• added the parse_ranges() function (issue 2438)
• added the check_ip_address() function (issue 2483)
• updated parse_to_qore_value() to support single-element lists and hashes with curly brackets including empty hashes (issue 3138)
• updated get_exception_string() to show the lang value (issue 3182)

Util 1.3

• updated for complex types
• added the make_uri_query() function
• added the parse_uri_query() function
• added the UriQueryInfo hashdecl
• added the flatten() function
• added the uniq() function

Util 1.2

• the following functions are now actually implemented in the Qore library and only reexported here for backwards-compatibility:
  • Qore::absolute_path()
  • Qore::absolute_path_windows()
  • Qore::absolute_path_unix()
• added Util::glob_to_regex()
• added Util::is_int()
• added Util::is_float()
• added Util::is_number()
• added Util::lpad()
• added Util::ordinal()
• added Util::plural()
• added Util::regex_escape()
• added Util::rpad()
• added Util::same()
• added Util::slice()
• added Util::tmp_location()
• added Util::zip()
• fixed Util::get_random_string() on Windows
• fixed Util::absolute_path_windows()
• fixed Util::parse_to_qore_value() with hashes with a comma in the first key name; now respects parentheses when parsing lists and hashes (issue 846)
• fixed Util::normalize_dir_windows() handling of UNC paths (issue 813)

Util 1.1

• added the Util::get_byte_size() and Util::get_marketing_byte_size() functions

Util 1.0

• the initial version of the Util module