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+<?php
+/**
+* Locate a byte index given a UTF-8 character index
+* @version $Id: position.php,v 1.1 2006/10/01 00:01:31 harryf Exp $
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage position
+*/
+
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+* Given a string and a character index in the string, in
+* terms of the UTF-8 character position, returns the byte
+* index of that character. Can be useful when you want to
+* PHP's native string functions but we warned, locating
+* the byte can be expensive
+* Takes variable number of parameters - first must be
+* the search string then 1 to n UTF-8 character positions
+* to obtain byte indexes for - it is more efficient to search
+* the string for multiple characters at once, than make
+* repeated calls to this function
+*
+* @author Chris Smith<chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+* @param string string to locate index in
+* @param int (n times)
+* @return mixed - int if only one input int, array if more
+* @return boolean TRUE if it's all ASCII
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage position
+*/
+function utf8_byte_position() {
+
+ $args = func_get_args();
+ $str =& array_shift($args);
+ if (!is_string($str)) return false;
+
+ $result = array();
+
+ // trivial byte index, character offset pair
+ $prev = array(0,0);
+
+ // use a short piece of str to estimate bytes per character
+ // $i (& $j) -> byte indexes into $str
+ $i = utf8_locate_next_chr($str, 300);
+
+ // $c -> character offset into $str
+ $c = strlen(utf8_decode(substr($str,0,$i)));
+
+ // deal with arguments from lowest to highest
+ sort($args);
+
+ foreach ($args as $offset) {
+ // sanity checks FIXME
+
+ // 0 is an easy check
+ if ($offset == 0) { $result[] = 0; continue; }
+
+ // ensure no endless looping
+ $safety_valve = 50;
+
+ do {
+
+ if ( ($c - $prev[1]) == 0 ) {
+ // Hack: gone past end of string
+ $error = 0;
+ $i = strlen($str);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ $j = $i + (int)(($offset-$c) * ($i - $prev[0]) / ($c - $prev[1]));
+
+ // correct to utf8 character boundary
+ $j = utf8_locate_next_chr($str, $j);
+
+ // save the index, offset for use next iteration
+ $prev = array($i,$c);
+
+ if ($j > $i) {
+ // determine new character offset
+ $c += strlen(utf8_decode(substr($str,$i,$j-$i)));
+ } else {
+ // ditto
+ $c -= strlen(utf8_decode(substr($str,$j,$i-$j)));
+ }
+
+ $error = abs($c-$offset);
+
+ // ready for next time around
+ $i = $j;
+
+ // from 7 it is faster to iterate over the string
+ } while ( ($error > 7) && --$safety_valve) ;
+
+ if ($error && $error <= 7) {
+
+ if ($c < $offset) {
+ // move up
+ while ($error--) { $i = utf8_locate_next_chr($str,++$i); }
+ } else {
+ // move down
+ while ($error--) { $i = utf8_locate_current_chr($str,--$i); }
+ }
+
+ // ready for next arg
+ $c = $offset;
+ }
+ $result[] = $i;
+ }
+
+ if ( count($result) == 1 ) {
+ return $result[0];
+ }
+
+ return $result;
+}
+
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+* Given a string and any byte index, returns the byte index
+* of the start of the current UTF-8 character, relative to supplied
+* position. If the current character begins at the same place as the
+* supplied byte index, that byte index will be returned. Otherwise
+* this function will step backwards, looking for the index where
+* curent UTF-8 character begins
+* @author Chris Smith<chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+* @param string
+* @param int byte index in the string
+* @return int byte index of start of next UTF-8 character
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage position
+*/
+function utf8_locate_current_chr( &$str, $idx ) {
+
+ if ($idx <= 0) return 0;
+
+ $limit = strlen($str);
+ if ($idx >= $limit) return $limit;
+
+ // Binary value for any byte after the first in a multi-byte UTF-8 character
+ // will be like 10xxxxxx so & 0xC0 can be used to detect this kind
+ // of byte - assuming well formed UTF-8
+ while ($idx && ((ord($str[$idx]) & 0xC0) == 0x80)) $idx--;
+
+ return $idx;
+}
+
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+* Given a string and any byte index, returns the byte index
+* of the start of the next UTF-8 character, relative to supplied
+* position. If the next character begins at the same place as the
+* supplied byte index, that byte index will be returned.
+* @author Chris Smith<chris@jalakai.co.uk>
+* @param string
+* @param int byte index in the string
+* @return int byte index of start of next UTF-8 character
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage position
+*/
+function utf8_locate_next_chr( &$str, $idx ) {
+
+ if ($idx <= 0) return 0;
+
+ $limit = strlen($str);
+ if ($idx >= $limit) return $limit;
+
+ // Binary value for any byte after the first in a multi-byte UTF-8 character
+ // will be like 10xxxxxx so & 0xC0 can be used to detect this kind
+ // of byte - assuming well formed UTF-8
+ while (($idx < $limit) && ((ord($str[$idx]) & 0xC0) == 0x80)) $idx++;
+
+ return $idx;
+}
+