Re: [PATCH v3] rust: str: add {make,to}_{upper,lower}case() to CString

From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Fri Feb 16 2024 - 14:25:54 EST


On 2/16/24 18:11, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
On 2/16/24 17:53, Alice Ryhl wrote:
+    /// Returns a copy of this [`CString`] where each character is mapped to its
+    /// ASCII upper case equivalent.
+    ///
+    /// ASCII letters 'a' to 'z' are mapped to 'A' to 'Z',
+    /// but non-ASCII letters are unchanged.
+    ///
+    /// To uppercase the value in-place, use [`make_ascii_uppercase`].
+    ///
+    /// [`make_ascii_uppercase`]: str::make_ascii_uppercase
+    pub fn to_ascii_uppercase(&self) -> Result<CString, AllocError> {
+        let mut s = (*self).to_cstring()?;
+
+        s.make_ascii_uppercase();
+
+        return Ok(s);
+    }

Please move these to `CStr` as well.

That would result into two copies if I actually want a CString, wouldn't it?

Also, what would be the use case? And even if someone wants to have a CStr
again, couldn't we just deref the resulting CString?

To clarify, I want you to move it to the `impl CStr` block. That changes the type of the `self` argument. I don't want you to change the return type - that should still be `CString`.

Currently, if I have a `&CStr` and I want an uppercase `CString`, I can't do that with this method.

Alice