BloombergLP::bdlde::Utf8Util::numCodePointsIfValid

Return the Unicode code‐point count if string is valid UTF‐8.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlde_utf8util.h>

static
IntPtr
numCodePointsIfValid(
    char const** invalidString,
    std::string_view const& string);

Description

Return the number of Unicode code points in the specified string if string contains valid UTF‐8, with no effect on the specified invalidString. Otherwise, return a value from the ErrorStatus enum (which are all negative) and load into invalidString the address of the byte after the last valid Unicode code point traversed. string need not be null‐terminated and may contain embedded null bytes.

Return Value

code‐point count on success, or an ErrorStatus value

Parameters

Name

Description

invalidString

if non‐null, set to after the last valid code point

string

UTF‐8 string view to examine

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