highlight/src/escape.rs

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//! HTML Escaping
//!
//! This module contains one unit-struct which can be used to HTML-escape a
//! string of text (for use in a format string).

use std::fmt;

/// Wrapper struct which will emit the HTML-escaped version of the contained
/// string when passed to a format string.
pub struct Escape<'a>(pub &'a str);

impl<'a> fmt::Display for Escape<'a> {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        // Because the internet is always right, turns out there's not that many
        // characters to escape: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7381974
        let Escape(s) = *self;
        let pile_o_bits = s;
        let mut last = 0;
        for (i, ch) in s.bytes().enumerate() {
            match ch as char {
                '<' | '>' | '&' | '\'' | '"' => {
                    fmt.write_str(&pile_o_bits[last..i])?;
                    let s = match ch as char {
                        '>' => "&gt;",
                        '<' => "&lt;",
                        '&' => "&amp;",
                        '\'' => "&#39;",
                        '"' => "&quot;",
                        _ => unreachable!(),
                    };
                    fmt.write_str(s)?;
                    last = i + 1;
                }
                _ => {}
            }
        }

        if last < s.len() {
            fmt.write_str(&pile_o_bits[last..])?;
        }
        Ok(())
    }
}