# subst
Shell-like variable substitution for strings and byte strings.
## Features
* Perform substitution in `&str` or in `&[u8]`.
* Provide a custom map of variables or use environment variables.
* Support for `indexmap` (requires the `indexmap` feature).
* Short format: `"Hello $name!"`
* Long format: `"Hello ${name}!"`
* Default values: `"Hello ${name:person}!"`
* Recursive substitution in default values: `"${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:$HOME/.config}/my-app/config.toml"`
* Perform substitution on all string values in TOML, JSON or YAML data (optional, requires the `toml`, `json` or `yaml` feature).
Variable names can consist of alphanumeric characters and underscores.
They are allowed to start with numbers.
If you want to quickly perform substitution on a string, use [`substitute()`] or [`substitute_bytes()`].
It is also possible to use one of the template types.
The templates parse the source string or bytes once, and can be expanded as many times as you want.
There are four different template types to choose from:
* [`Template`]: borrows the source string.
* [`TemplateBuf`]: owns the source string.
* [`ByteTemplate`]: borrows the source bytes.
* [`ByteTemplateBuf`]: owns the source bytes.
## Examples
The [`substitute()`] function can be used to perform substitution on a `&str`.
The variables can either be a [`HashMap`][std::collections::HashMap] or a [`BTreeMap`][std::collections::BTreeMap].
```rust
let mut variables = HashMap::new();
variables.insert("name", "world");
assert_eq!(subst::substitute("Hello $name!", &variables)?, "Hello world!");
```
The variables can also be taken directly from the environment with the [`Env`] map.
```rust
assert_eq!(
subst::substitute("$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/my-app/config.toml", &subst::Env)?,
"/home/user/.config/my-app/config.toml",
);
```
Substitution can also be done on byte strings using the [`substitute_bytes()`] function.
```rust
let mut variables = HashMap::new();
variables.insert("name", b"world");
assert_eq!(subst::substitute_bytes(b"Hello $name!", &variables)?, b"Hello world!");
```
You can also parse a template once and expand it multiple times:
```rust
let template = subst::Template::from_str("Welcome to our hair salon, $name!")?;
for name in ["Scrappy", "Coco"] {
let variables: HashMap<_, _> = [("name", name)].into_iter().collect();
let message = template.expand(&variables)?;
println!("{}", message);
}
```
[`substitute()`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/fn.substitute.html
[`substitute_bytes()`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/fn.substitute_bytes.html
[`Template`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/struct.Template.html
[`TemplateBuf`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/struct.TemplateBuf.html
[`ByteTemplate`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/struct.ByteTemplate.html
[`ByteTemplateBuf`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/struct.ByteTemplateBuf.html
[`Env`]: https://docs.rs/subst/latest/subst/struct.Env.html
[std::collections::HashMap]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/collections/struct.HashMap.html
[std::collections::BTreeMap]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/collections/struct.BTreeMap.html