patch 9.1.1016: Not possible to convert string2blob and blob2string
Problem: Not possible to convert string2blob and blob2string
Solution: add support for the blob2str() and str2blob() functions
closes: #16373
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
index a34c63a..10970bc 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Jan 06
+*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Jan 14
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
bindtextdomain({package}, {path})
Bool bind text domain to specified path
blob2list({blob}) List convert {blob} into a list of numbers
+blob2str({blob} [, {options}]) String convert {blob} into a String
browse({save}, {title}, {initdir}, {default})
String put up a file requester
browsedir({title}, {initdir}) String put up a directory requester
@@ -609,6 +610,8 @@
sqrt({expr}) Float square root of {expr}
srand([{expr}]) List get seed for |rand()|
state([{what}]) String current state of Vim
+str2blob({string} [, {options}])
+ Blob convert {string} into a Blob
str2float({expr} [, {quoted}]) Float convert String to Float
str2list({expr} [, {utf8}]) List convert each character of {expr} to
ASCII/UTF-8 value
@@ -1289,6 +1292,38 @@
<
Return type: list<any> or list<number>
+
+blob2str({blob} [, {options}]) *blob2str()*
+ Return a String in the current 'encoding' by converting the
+ bytes in {blob} into characters.
+
+ If {options} is not supplied, the current 'encoding' value is
+ used to decode the bytes in {blob}.
+
+ The argument {options} is a |Dict| and supports the following
+ items:
+ encoding Decode the bytes in {blob} using this
+ encoding. The value is a |String|. See
+ |encoding-names| for the supported values.
+ *E1515*
+ An error is given and an empty string is returned if
+ an invalid byte sequence is encountered in {blob},
+
+ Returns an empty String if blob is empty.
+
+ See also |str2blob()|
+
+ Examples: >
+ blob2str(0z6162) returns "ab"
+ blob2str(0zC2ABC2BB) returns "«»"
+ blob2str(0zABBB, {'encoding': 'latin1'}) returns "«»"
+<
+ Can also be used as a |method|: >
+ GetBlob()->blob2str()
+<
+ Return type: |String|
+
+
*browse()*
browse({save}, {title}, {initdir}, {default})
Put up a file requester. This only works when "has("browse")"
@@ -10556,6 +10591,36 @@
Return type: |String|
+str2blob({string} [, {options}]) *str2blob()*
+ Return a Blob by converting the characters in {string} into
+ bytes.
+
+ If {options} is not supplied, the current 'encoding' value is
+ used to convert the characters in {string} into bytes.
+
+ The argument {options} is a |Dict| and supports the following
+ items:
+ encoding Encode the characters in {string} using this
+ encoding. The value is a |String|. See
+ |encoding-names| for the supported values.
+
+ An error is given and an empty blob is returned if the
+ character encoding fails.
+
+ Returns an empty Blob if {string} is empty.
+
+ See also |blob2str()|
+
+ Examples: >
+ str2blob("ab") returns 0z6162
+ str2blob("«»") returns 0zC2ABC2BB
+ str2blob("«»", {'encoding': 'latin1'}) returns 0zABBB
+<
+ Can also be used as a |method|: >
+ GetStr()->str2blob()
+<
+ Return type: |Blob|
+
str2float({string} [, {quoted}]) *str2float()*
Convert String {string} to a Float. This mostly works the
same as when using a floating point number in an expression,