Avoid using std::regex for now

It turned out that on some platforms we still aim to support the stdlib
had not yet implemented std::regex. For this reason we want to avoid
using it for now.

In the particular use cases here it was also not the best solution. It
was faster to write using a regular expression instead of a hand coded
loop but clearly a simple loop should be more efficient here.

See issue #1873.

src/sql/ObjectIdentifier.cpp

@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 #include "ObjectIdentifier.h"
 
-#include <regex>
+static std::string duplicate_char(std::string str, char to_replace)
+{
+    size_t pos = 0;
+    while((pos = str.find(to_replace, pos)) != std::string::npos)
+    {
+        str.insert(pos, 1, to_replace);
+        pos += 2;                           // Advance by two characters in order to avoid escaping a character multiple times
+    }
+    return str;
+}
 
 namespace sqlb {
 
@@ -15,7 +24,7 @@ std::string escapeIdentifier(const std::string& id)
 {
     switch(customQuoting) {
     case GraveAccents:
-        return '`' + std::regex_replace(id, std::regex("\\`"), std::string("``")) + '`';
+        return '`' + duplicate_char(id, '`') + '`';
     case SquareBrackets:
         // There aren't any escaping possibilities for square brackets inside the identifier,
         // so we rely on the user to not enter these characters when this kind of quoting is
@@ -26,7 +35,7 @@ std::string escapeIdentifier(const std::string& id)
         // This may produce a 'control reaches end of non-void function' warning if the
         // default branch is removed, even though we have covered all possibilities in the
         // switch statement.
-        return '"' + std::regex_replace(id, std::regex("\\\""), std::string("\"\"")) + '"';
+        return '"' + duplicate_char(id, '"') + '"';
     }
 }
 

src/sql/sqlitetypes.cpp

@@ -6,9 +6,18 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <clocale>          // This include seems to only be necessary for the Windows build
-#include <regex>
 #include <numeric>
 
+namespace {
+bool starts_with_ci(const std::string& str, const std::string& with)
+{
+    if(str.size() < with.size())
+        return false;
+    else
+        return compare_ci(str.substr(0, with.size()), with);
+}
+}
+
 namespace sqlb {
 
 StringVector escapeIdentifier(StringVector ids)
@@ -235,32 +244,55 @@ std::string Field::toString(const std::string& indent, const std::string& sep) c
 
 bool Field::isText() const
 {
-    std::regex is_text("(^(character|varchar|varying character|nchar|native character|nvarchar))|(^(text|clob)$)", std::regex::icase);
-    return std::regex_match(m_type, is_text);
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "character")) return true;
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "varchar")) return true;
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "varying character")) return true;
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "nchar")) return true;
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "native character")) return true;
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "nvarchar")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "text")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "clob")) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 bool Field::isInteger() const
 {
-    std::regex is_integer("^(int|integer|tinyint|smallint|mediumint|bigint|unsigned big int|int2|int8)$", std::regex::icase);
-    return std::regex_match(m_type, is_integer);
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "int")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "integer")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "tinyint")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "smallint")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "mediumint")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "bigint")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "unsigned big int")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "int2")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "int8")) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 bool Field::isReal() const
 {
-    std::regex is_real("^(real|double|double precision|float)$", std::regex::icase);
-    return std::regex_match(m_type, is_real);
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "real")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "double")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "double precision")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "float")) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 bool Field::isNumeric() const
 {
-    std::regex is_numeric("(^(decimal))|(^(numeric|boolean|date|datetime)$)", std::regex::icase);
-    return std::regex_match(m_type, is_numeric);
+    if(starts_with_ci(m_type, "decimal")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "numeric")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "boolean")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "date")) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "datetime")) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 bool Field::isBlob() const
 {
-    std::regex is_blob("(^$)|(^blob$)", std::regex::icase);
-    return std::regex_match(m_type, is_blob);
+    if(m_type.empty()) return true;
+    if(compare_ci(m_type, "blob")) return true;
+    return false;
 }
 
 std::string Field::affinity() const
@@ -591,6 +623,19 @@ void Table::renameKeyInAllConstraints(const std::string& key, const std::string&
 
 namespace
 {
+std::string unescape_identifier(std::string str, char quote_char)
+{
+    std::string quote(2, quote_char);
+
+    size_t pos = 0;
+    while((pos = str.find(quote, pos)) != std::string::npos)
+    {
+        str.erase(pos, 1);
+        pos += 1;               // Don't remove the other quote char too
+    }
+    return str;
+}
+
 std::string identifier(antlr::RefAST ident)
 {
     std::string sident = ident->getText();
@@ -599,7 +644,7 @@ std::string identifier(antlr::RefAST ident)
        ident->getType() == sqlite3TokenTypes::STRINGLITERAL)
     {
         // Remember the way the identifier is quoted
-        std::string quoteChar(1, sident.at(0));
+        char quoteChar = sident.at(0);
 
         // Remove first and final character, i.e. the quotes
         sident = sident.substr(1, sident.size() - 2);
@@ -608,7 +653,7 @@ std::string identifier(antlr::RefAST ident)
         // by a single instance. This is done because two quotes can be used as a means of escaping
         // the quote character, thus only the visual representation has its two quotes, the actual
         // name contains only one.
-        sident = std::regex_replace(sident, std::regex("\\" + quoteChar + "\\" + quoteChar), quoteChar);
+        sident = unescape_identifier(sident, quoteChar);
     }
 
     return sident;

src/sql/sqlitetypes.h

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ bool compare_ci(const T& a, const T& b)
     });
 }
 
+template<typename T>
+bool compare_ci(const T& a, const char* b)
+{
+    return compare_ci(a, std::string(b));
+}
+
 namespace sqlb {
 
 using StringVector = std::vector<std::string>;