Revision history for Char-Replace

0.007     2026-02-10 11:42:03-07:00 America/Denver

- New: code ref (callback) map entries for dynamic replacement in replace()
  — callback receives the character, return value becomes the replacement
  — return undef to keep original, empty string to delete
  — replace_inplace() croaks on code ref entries (use replace() instead)
- Fix: memory leak when a code ref callback dies during replace()
  (reply SV was not freed on exception; now uses G_EVAL + croak_sv)
- Fix taint propagation: replace() and trim() now correctly propagate the
  taint flag from input to output (previously laundered tainted data)
- New trim_inplace(): zero-allocation in-place whitespace trimming
  (modifies string directly, returns count of bytes removed)
- UTF-8 safety: multi-byte sequences (>= 0x80) are now copied through
  unchanged; replacement map is only applied to ASCII bytes (0x00-0x7F)
- IV/NV map entries: integer values treated as character ordinals (chr)
- Empty string map entries now delete the character from output
- Fix off-by-one: map[255] is now reachable (>= vs > boundary)
- Fix type safety: unsigned char for byte handling, STRLEN for loop vars
- New replace_inplace(): zero-allocation in-place 1:1 byte replacement
  (up to 3.5x faster than replace() for long strings)
- New build_map(): convenience constructor from char => replacement pairs
- Perf: replace() writes directly into SV buffer (avoids temp alloc+copy)
- Perf: precomputed 256-byte lookup table fast path for 1:1 maps in both
  replace() and replace_inplace() — eliminates per-byte SV type dispatch;
  replace() on long strings is now faster than Perl's tr///
- Refactor: extract UTF8_SEQ_LEN macro for shared UTF-8 byte handling

0.006     2025-11-21 16:07:16-07:00 America/Denver

- Fix compiling issue with threaded Perl versions
- Fix compiling warnings

0.005     2025-05-18 15:27:02-06:00 America/Denver

- Fix compiler error due to incorrect pointer type in Newx cal

0.004     2019-01-30 13:04:14-06:00 America/Chicago

- fix issue when growing a string containing a '\0'

0.003     2018-12-14 15:30:08-06:00 America/Chicago

- add a trim XS helper (and some benchmark) with UTF-8 support
- basic UTF-8 support for replace

0.002     2018-12-11 14:55:47-06:00 America/Chicago

- fixup for non alphanumeric characters

0.001     2018-12-11 12:03:27-06:00 America/Chicago

First version, this is a very alpha state
    use it at your own risk