interface/wx/textfile.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        textfile.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxTextFile
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   8
   9
  10 /**
  11     The line termination type (kept wxTextFileType name for compability).
  12 */
  13 enum wxTextFileType
  14 {
  15     wxTextFileType_None,  //!< incomplete (the last line of the file only)
  16     wxTextFileType_Unix,  //!< line is terminated with 'LF' = 0xA = 10 = '\\n'
  17     wxTextFileType_Dos,   //!< line is terminated with 'CR' 'LF'
  18     wxTextFileType_Mac,   //!< line is terminated with 'CR' = 0xD = 13 = '\\r'
  19     wxTextFileType_Os2    //!< line is terminated with 'CR' 'LF'
  20 };
  21
  22 /**
  23     @class wxTextFile
  24
  25     The wxTextFile is a simple class which allows to work with text files on line by
  26     line basis. It also understands the differences in line termination characters
  27     under different platforms and will not do anything bad to files with "non
  28     native" line termination sequences - in fact, it can be also used to modify the
  29     text files and change the line termination characters from one type (say DOS) to
  30     another (say Unix).
  31
  32     One word of warning: the class is not at all optimized for big files and thus
  33     it will load the file entirely into memory when opened. Of course, you should
  34     not work in this way with large files (as an estimation, anything over 1 Megabyte
  35     is surely too big for this class). On the other hand, it is not a serious
  36     limitation for small files like configuration files or program sources
  37     which are well handled by wxTextFile.
  38
  39     The typical things you may do with wxTextFile in order are:
  40
  41     - Create and open it: this is done with either wxTextFile::Create or wxTextFile::Open
  42       function which opens the file (name may be specified either as the argument to
  43       these functions or in the constructor), reads its contents in memory (in the
  44       case of wxTextFile::Open()) and closes it.
  45     - Work with the lines in the file: this may be done either with "direct
  46       access" functions like wxTextFile::GetLineCount and wxTextFile::GetLine
  47       (@e operator[] does exactly the same but looks more like array addressing)
  48       or with "sequential access" functions which include wxTextFile::GetFirstLine,
  49       wxTextFile::GetNextLine and also wxTextFile::GetLastLine, wxTextFile::GetPrevLine.
  50       For the sequential access functions the current line number is maintained: it is
  51       returned by wxTextFile::GetCurrentLine and may be changed with wxTextFile::GoToLine.
  52     - Add/remove lines to the file: wxTextFile::AddLine and wxTextFile::InsertLine
  53       add new lines while wxTextFile::RemoveLine deletes the existing ones.
  54       wxTextFile::Clear resets the file to empty.
  55     - Save your changes: notice that the changes you make to the file will @b not be
  56       saved automatically; calling wxTextFile::Close or doing nothing discards them!
  57       To save the changes you must explicitly callwxTextFile::Write - here, you may
  58       also change the line termination type if you wish.
  59
  60
  61     @library{wxbase}
  62     @category{file}
  63
  64     @see wxFile
  65 */
  66 class wxTextFile
  67 {
  68 public:
  69     /**
  70         Default constructor, use Create() or Open() with a file name parameter to
  71         initialize the object.
  72     */
  73     wxTextFile();
  74
  75     /**
  76         Constructor does not load the file into memory, use Open() to do it.
  77     */
  78     wxTextFile(const wxString& strFile);
  79
  80     /**
  81         Destructor does nothing.
  82     */
  83     virtual ~wxTextFile();
  84
  85     /**
  86         Adds a line to the end of file.
  87     */
  88     void AddLine(const wxString& str,
  89                  wxTextFileType type = wxTextBuffer::typeDefault);
  90
  91     /**
  92         Delete all lines from the file, set current line number to 0.
  93     */
  94     void Clear();
  95
  96     /**
  97         Closes the file and frees memory, @b "losing all changes".
  98         Use Write() if you want to save them.
  99     */
 100     bool Close();
 101
 102     /**
 103         Creates the file with the name which was given in the
 104         wxTextFile(const wxString&) constructor.
 105         The array of file lines is initially empty.
 106
 107         It will fail if the file already exists, Open() should be used in this case.
 108     */
 109     bool Create() const;
 110
 111     /**
 112         Creates the file with the given name.
 113         The array of file lines is initially empty.
 114
 115         It will fail if the file already exists, Open() should be used in this case.
 116     */
 117     bool Create(const wxString& strFile) const;
 118
 119     /**
 120         Returns @true if the current line is the last one.
 121     */
 122     bool Eof() const;
 123
 124     /**
 125         Return @true if file exists - the name of the file should have been specified
 126         in the constructor before calling Exists().
 127     */
 128     bool Exists() const;
 129
 130     /**
 131         Returns the current line: it has meaning only when you're using
 132         GetFirstLine()/GetNextLine() functions, it doesn't get updated when
 133         you're using "direct access" functions like GetLine().
 134         GetFirstLine() and GetLastLine() also change the value of the current line,
 135         as well as GoToLine().
 136     */
 137     size_t GetCurrentLine() const;
 138
 139     /**
 140         Get the line termination string corresponding to given constant.
 141
 142         @e typeDefault is the value defined during the compilation and corresponds
 143         to the native format of the platform, i.e. it will be @c wxTextFileType_Dos
 144         under Windows, @c wxTextFileType_Unix under Unix (including Mac OS X when
 145         compiling with the Apple Developer Tools) and @c wxTextFileType_Mac under
 146         Mac OS (including Mac OS X when compiling with CodeWarrior).
 147     */
 148     static const char* GetEOL(wxTextFileType type = typeDefault) const;
 149
 150     /**
 151         This method together with GetNextLine() allows more "iterator-like"
 152         traversal of the list of lines, i.e. you may write something like:
 153
 154         @code
 155         wxTextFile file;
 156         ...
 157         for ( str = file.GetFirstLine(); !file.Eof(); str = file.GetNextLine() )
 158         {
 159             // do something with the current line in str
 160         }
 161         // do something with the last line in str
 162         @endcode
 163     */
 164     wxString& GetFirstLine();
 165
 166     /**
 167         Gets the last line of the file.
 168
 169         Together with GetPrevLine() it allows to enumerate the lines
 170         in the file from the end to the beginning like this:
 171
 172         @code
 173         wxTextFile file;
 174         ...
 175         for ( str = file.GetLastLine();
 176             file.GetCurrentLine() > 0;
 177             str = file.GetPrevLine() )
 178         {
 179             // do something with the current line in str
 180         }
 181         // do something with the first line in str
 182         @endcode
 183     */
 184     wxString& GetLastLine();
 185
 186     /**
 187         Retrieves the line number @a n from the file.
 188
 189         The returned line may be modified but you shouldn't add line terminator
 190         at the end - this will be done by wxTextFile.
 191     */
 192     wxString& GetLine(size_t n) const;
 193
 194     /**
 195         Get the number of lines in the file.
 196     */
 197     size_t GetLineCount() const;
 198
 199     /**
 200         Get the type of the line (see also wxTextFile::GetEOL).
 201     */
 202     wxTextFileType GetLineType(size_t n) const;
 203
 204     /**
 205         Get the name of the file.
 206     */
 207     const wxString& GetName() const;
 208
 209     /**
 210         Gets the next line (see GetFirstLine() for the example).
 211     */
 212     wxString& GetNextLine();
 213
 214     /**
 215         Gets the previous line in the file.
 216     */
 217     wxString& GetPrevLine();
 218
 219     /**
 220         Changes the value returned by GetCurrentLine() and used by GetFirstLine()
 221         and GetNextLine().
 222     */
 223     void GoToLine(size_t n);
 224
 225     /**
 226         Guess the type of file (which is supposed to be opened).
 227
 228         If sufficiently many lines of the file are in DOS/Unix/Mac format,
 229         the corresponding value will be returned.
 230         If the detection mechanism fails @c wxTextFileType_None is returned.
 231     */
 232     wxTextFileType GuessType() const;
 233
 234     /**
 235         Insert a line before the line number @a n.
 236     */
 237     void InsertLine(const wxString& str, size_t n,
 238                     wxTextFileType type = wxTextBuffer::typeDefault);
 239
 240     /**
 241         Returns @true if the file is currently opened.
 242     */
 243     bool IsOpened() const;
 244
 245     //@{
 246     /**
 247         Open() opens the file with the given name or the name which was given in the
 248         wxTextFile(const wxString&) constructor and also loads file in memory on success.
 249
 250         It will fail if the file does not exist, Create() should be used in this case.
 251
 252         The @a conv argument is only meaningful in Unicode build of wxWidgets when
 253         it is used to convert the file to wide character representation.
 254     */
 255     bool Open(const wxMBConv& conv = wxConvAuto()) const;
 256     bool Open(const wxString& strFile, const wxMBConv& conv = wxConvAuto()) const;
 257     //@}
 258
 259     /**
 260         Delete line number @a n from the file.
 261     */
 262     void RemoveLine(size_t n);
 263
 264     /**
 265         Change the file on disk.
 266
 267         The @a typeNew parameter allows you to change the file format
 268         (default argument means "don't change type") and may be used to convert,
 269         for example, DOS files to Unix.
 270
 271         The @a conv argument is only meaningful in Unicode build of wxWidgets when
 272         it is used to convert all lines to multibyte representation before writing
 273         them to physical file.
 274
 275         @return
 276             @true if operation succeeded, @false if it failed.
 277     */
 278     bool Write(wxTextFileType typeNew = wxTextFileType_None,
 279                const wxMBConv& conv = wxConvAuto());
 280
 281     /**
 282         The same as GetLine().
 283     */
 284     wxString& operator[](size_t n) const;
 285 };
 286