File: test-strings.txt

Description

   test-strings - a Ruby package for creating test strings and copying
   them to the clipboard.

Synopsis

   require "test-strings"

   copy counterstring(12)

   unicopy ['3b1', '3b2', '3b3', '3b4']
   unicopy %w{ 3b1 3b2 3b3 3b4 }

   Copying to the clipboard works only for Windows and Mac OSX.

Methods

counterstring(length)

   Generates a string whose last character is an asterisk. Before each
   asterisk is the length of the string through the asterisk. For
   example:

   counterstring 10
   => "*3*5*7*10*"

   If the string is truncated, you can deduce what it was truncated
   to. For example, "*3*5*7*1" has been truncated to 8 characters.

ascii

   Generates a string that contains all 128 ASCII characters except
   for NUL (0). (I've found no way to paste a zero to the Windows
   clipboard.)

extended_ascii

   Generates a string that contains all 256 characters in an 8-bit
   character set, except NUL (0).

copy(string)

   Copies a string onto the clipboard, identifying it as being in
   either the  Mac-Roman or Windows-1252 encodings. On Windows, the
   string may not contain a NUL (0).

unicopy(hex_name_array)

   Takes an array of strings. Each string is the hexadecimal name
   ("code point") for a single unicode character. The names are joined
   into a string of unicode characters that are placed on the
   clipboard.

   The most convenient way to use unicopy is to construct the arrays
   with %w{}. Instead of:

      unicopy ['3b1', '3b2', '3b3', '3b4']

   use:

      unicopy %w{ 3b1, 3b2, 3b3, 3b4 }

   On Windows, names with either two leading or trailing zeros ('00xx'
   or 'xx00') are rejected. It doesn't seem possible to put them on
   the clipboard, given the Ruby interface to the clipboard.

   When pasting the above into TextEdit on the Mac, you should see the
   first four letters of the Greek alphabet. You can do the same with
   WordPad on Windows, but make sure you are working on a Unicode Text
   Document, not a Rich Text Document or a Text Document.

License

   Berkeley

Author

   Brian Marick
   marick@exampler.com

Credits

   James Bach and Danny Faught for the inspiration, PerlClip.

Classes