Source Span

This crate provides utilities to locate characters and ranges of characters (spans) in a source file. It also provides ways to print fragments of the source file with span informations, hints, errors, warning and notes, just like the rustc compiler.

Basic usage

This crate is designed as an incremental parsing utility. Its primary function is to keep track of the line and column position of each character in a character stream:

use source_span::Position;

let metrics = &source_span::DEFAULT_METRICS; // characters metrics
let mut pos = Position::new(0, 0);
let str = "Hello\nWorld!";

for c in str.chars() {
	// `pos` holds the position (line, column) of
	// the current character at all points.
	pos.shift(c, metrics)
}

Using the Span type, it is also possible to build ranges of characters.

let mut chars = "1 + (2 * 2) / 3".chars();
let mut pos = Position::new(0, 0);
while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
	if c == '(' {
		break
	}

	pos.shift(c, &metrics)
}

let mut span: Span = pos.into();

while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
	span.push(c, &metrics);

	if c == ')' {
		break
	}
}

// `span` now holds the beginning and end position of the `"(2 * 2)"` slice.

SourceBuffer

This crate provides a simple SourceBuffer buffer to index a character stream by character position.

use std::fs::File;
use source_span::{DEFAULT_METRICS, Position, SourceBuffer};

let file = File::open("examples/fib.txt")?;
let chars = utf8_decode::UnsafeDecoder::new(file.bytes());
let metrics = DEFAULT_METRICS;
let buffer = SourceBuffer::new(chars, Position::default(), metrics);

buffer.at(Position::new(4, 2)).unwrap()? // get the character at line 4, column 2.

The SourceBuffer type works as a wrapper around a character iterator. It is lazy: new characters are pulled from the wrapped iterator and put in the buffer only when needed. It can be used to access characters at a specific cursor position (as seen above) or iterate a slice of the text using a Span:

for c in buffer.iter_span(span) {
	// do something
}

Formatting

This crate also provides a way to format decorated text, highlighting portions of the source text using ASCII art. It can be used to produce outputs similar as the following:

Each highlight is described by a span, can be associated to a label and drawn with a specific style (defining what characters and color to use to draw the lines).

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.