Crate indoc

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This crate provides a procedural macro for indented string literals. The indoc!() macro takes a multiline string literal and un-indents it at compile time so the leftmost non-space character is in the first column.

[dependencies]
indoc = "1.0"

Using indoc

use indoc::indoc;

fn main() {
    let testing = indoc! {"
        def hello():
            print('Hello, world!')

        hello()
    "};
    let expected = "def hello():\n    print('Hello, world!')\n\nhello()\n";
    assert_eq!(testing, expected);
}

Indoc also works with raw string literals:

use indoc::indoc;

fn main() {
    let testing = indoc! {r#"
        def hello():
            print("Hello, world!")

        hello()
    "#};
    let expected = "def hello():\n    print(\"Hello, world!\")\n\nhello()\n";
    assert_eq!(testing, expected);
}

And byte string literals:

use indoc::indoc;

fn main() {
    let testing = indoc! {b"
        def hello():
            print('Hello, world!')

        hello()
    "};
    let expected = b"def hello():\n    print('Hello, world!')\n\nhello()\n";
    assert_eq!(testing[..], expected[..]);
}



Formatting macros

The indoc crate exports four additional macros to substitute conveniently for the standard library’s formatting macros:

  • formatdoc!($fmt, ...) — equivalent to format!(indoc!($fmt), ...)
  • printdoc!($fmt, ...) — equivalent to print!(indoc!($fmt), ...)
  • eprintdoc!($fmt, ...) — equivalent to eprint!(indoc!($fmt), ...)
  • writedoc!($dest, $fmt, ...) — equivalent to write!($dest, indoc!($fmt), ...)
use indoc::printdoc;

fn main() {
    printdoc! {"
        GET {url}
        Accept: {mime}
        ",
        url = "http://localhost:8080",
        mime = "application/json",
    }
}



Explanation

The following rules characterize the behavior of the indoc!() macro:

  1. Count the leading spaces of each line, ignoring the first line and any lines that are empty or contain spaces only.
  2. Take the minimum.
  3. If the first line is empty i.e. the string begins with a newline, remove the first line.
  4. Remove the computed number of spaces from the beginning of each line.

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