/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.core.util;

/**
 * A class to do characters operations so that we can use char arrays more
 * effectively.
 */
public class CharArrayOps { // TODO: should promote to CharOperation
	/**
	 * Returns the char arrays as an array of Strings
	 */
	public static String[] charcharToString(char[][] charchar) {
		if (charchar == null) {
			return null;
		}
		String[] strings = new String[charchar.length];
		for (int i = 0; i < charchar.length; i++) {
			strings[i] = new String(charchar[i]);
		}
		return strings;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the char array as a String
	 */
	public static String charToString(char[] chars) {
		if (chars == null) {
			return null;
		} else {
			return new String(chars);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Concatinates the two arrays into one big array. If the first array is
	 * null, returns the second array. If the second array is null, returns the
	 * first array.
	 * 
	 * @param first -
	 *            the array which the other array is concatinated onto
	 * @param second -
	 *            the array which is to be concatinated onto the first array
	 */
	public static char[] concat(char[] first, char[] second) {
		if (first == null)
			return second;
		if (second == null)
			return first;

		int length1 = first.length;
		int length2 = second.length;
		char[] result = new char[length1 + length2];
		System.arraycopy(first, 0, result, 0, length1);
		System.arraycopy(second, 0, result, length1, length2);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * Checks the two character arrays for equality.
	 * 
	 * @param first -
	 *            one of the arrays to be compared
	 * @param second -
	 *            the other array which is to be compared
	 */
	public static boolean equals(char[] first, char[] second) {
		if (first == second)
			return true;
		if (first == null || second == null)
			return false;
		if (first.length != second.length)
			return false;

		for (int i = 0, length = first.length; i < length; i++)
			if (first[i] != second[i])
				return false;
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the index of the first occurrence of character in buffer,
	 * starting from offset, or -1 if not found.
	 */
//	public static int indexOf(char character, char[] buffer, int offset) {
//		for (int i = offset; i < buffer.length; i++) {
//			if (buffer[i] == character) {
//				return i;
//			}
//		}
//		return -1;
//	}

	/**
	 * Extracts a sub-array from the given array, starting at the given
	 * startIndex and proceeding for length characters. Returns null if: 1. the
	 * src array is null 2. the start index is out of bounds 3. the length
	 * parameter specifies a end point which is out of bounds Does not return a
	 * copy of the array if possible, in other words, if start is zero and
	 * length equals the length of the src array.
	 * 
	 * @param src -
	 *            the array from which elements need to be copied
	 * @param start -
	 *            the start index in the src array
	 * @param length -
	 *            the number of characters to copy
	 */
	public static char[] subarray(char[] src, int start, int length) {
		if (src == null)
			return null;
		int srcLength = src.length;
		if (start < 0 || start >= srcLength)
			return null;
		if (length < 0 || start + length > srcLength)
			return null;
		if (srcLength == length && start == 0)
			return src;

		char[] result = new char[length];
		if (length > 0)
			System.arraycopy(src, start, result, 0, length);
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * Extracts a substring from the given array, starting at the given
	 * startIndex and proceeding for length characters. Returns null if: 1. the
	 * src array is null 2. the start index is out of bounds 3. the length
	 * parameter specifies a end point which is out of bounds Does not return a
	 * copy of the array if possible (if start is zero and length equals the
	 * length of the src array).
	 * 
	 * @param src -
	 *            the array from which elements need to be copied
	 * @param start -
	 *            the start index in the src array
	 * @param length -
	 *            the number of characters to copy
	 */
	public static String substring(char[] src, int start, int length) {
		char[] chars = subarray(src, start, length);
		if (chars != null) {
			return new String(chars);
		} else {
			return null;
		}
	}
}