emmental/emmental/format.py
Anna Schumaker 3cf730a5cc format: Add a function for formatting search strings
This takes the input string, casefolds it, and then adds some extra glob
operators to it so we can do a case insensitive substring search by
default.

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna@NoWheyCreamery.com>
2023-04-12 10:41:42 -04:00

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# Copyright 2022 (c) Anna Schumaker
"""Helper functions for formatting strings."""
def search(input: str) -> str | None:
"""Translate the input string into a sqlite3 GLOB statement."""
input = input.strip().casefold()
if len(input) == 0:
return None
if input[0] == "^":
input = input[1:] if len(input) > 1 else "*"
elif input[0] != "*":
input = "*" + input
if input[-1] == "$":
input = input[:-1]
elif input[-1] != "*":
input += "*"
return input