// Scintilla source code edit control
/** @file UniqueString.h
 ** Define UniqueString, a unique_ptr based string type for storage in containers
 ** and an allocator for UniqueString.
 **/
// Copyright 2017 by Neil Hodgson <neilh@scintilla.org>
// The License.txt file describes the conditions under which this software may be distributed.

#ifndef UNIQUESTRING_H
#define UNIQUESTRING_H

namespace Scintilla {

using UniqueString = std::unique_ptr<const char[]>;

/// Equivalent to strdup but produces a std::unique_ptr<const char[]> allocation to go
/// into collections.
inline UniqueString UniqueStringCopy(const char *text) {
	if (!text) {
		return UniqueString();
	}
	const size_t len = strlen(text);
	char *sNew = new char[len + 1];
	std::copy(text, text + len + 1, sNew);
	return UniqueString(sNew);
}

}

#endif