merging refactor (replacing)

slsSupportLib/include/string_utils.h

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+#pragma once
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+#include <cassert>
+#include <cstring>
+
+namespace sls {
+
+/* Implementation of a safe string copy function for setting fields in 
+for example the multi sls detector. It tries to copy the size of the 
+destination from the source, stopping on '\0'. 
+
+Warning this will truncate the source string and should be used with care. 
+Still this is better than strcpy and a buffer overflow...
+*/
+template <size_t array_size>
+void strcpy_safe(char (&destination)[array_size], const char *source) {
+    assert(array_size > strlen(source));
+    strncpy(destination, source, array_size-1);
+    destination[array_size - 1] = '\0';
+}
+
+template <size_t array_size>
+void strcpy_safe(char (&destination)[array_size], const std::string& source) {
+    assert(array_size > source.size());
+    strncpy(destination, source.c_str(), array_size-1);
+    destination[array_size - 1] = '\0';
+}
+
+/*
+Removes all occurrences of the specified char from a c string
+Templated on array size to ensure no access after buffer limits.
+*/
+template <size_t array_size>
+void removeChar(char (&str)[array_size], char ch) {
+    int count = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; str[i]; i++) {
+        if (str[i] != ch)
+            str[count++] = str[i];
+        if (i == array_size - 1)
+            break;
+    }
+    str[count] = '\0';
+}
+
+/* 
+Split a string using the specified delimeter and return a vector of strings.
+TODO! Look into switching to absl or a string_view based implementation. Current
+implementation should not be used in a performance critical place.
+*/
+std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string &strToSplit, char delimeter);
+
+/*
+Concatenate the non empty strings in the vector using +
+*/
+std::string concatenateNonEmptyStrings(const std::vector<std::string> &vec);
+
+/*
+Concatenate strings using + if the strings are different
+*/
+std::string concatenateIfDifferent(const std::vector<std::string> &container);
+
+/*
+Concatenate vector of things with str method using + if the strings are different
+*/
+template<typename T>
+std::string concatenateIfDifferent(const std::vector<T> &container);
+
+/*
+Convert an ip address string to a string in hex format. (removing dots)
+*/
+std::string stringIpToHex(const std::string &ip);
+
+}; // namespace sls