Method: String#undump

Defined in:
string.c

#undump ⇒ String

Returns an unescaped version of self:

s_orig = "\f\x00\xff\\\""    # => "\f\u0000\xFF\\\""
s_dumped = s_orig.dump       # => "\"\\f\\x00\\xFF\\\\\\\"\""
s_undumped = s_dumped.undump # => "\f\u0000\xFF\\\""
s_undumped == s_orig         # => true

Related: String#dump (inverse of String#undump).

Returns:



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# File 'string.c', line 7609

static VALUE
str_undump(VALUE str)
{
    const char *s = RSTRING_PTR(str);
    const char *s_end = RSTRING_END(str);
    rb_encoding *enc = rb_enc_get(str);
    VALUE undumped = rb_enc_str_new(s, 0L, enc);
    bool utf8 = false;
    bool binary = false;
    int w;

    rb_must_asciicompat(str);
    if (rb_str_is_ascii_only_p(str) == Qfalse) {
        rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "non-ASCII character detected");
    }
    if (!str_null_check(str, &w)) {
        rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "string contains null byte");
    }
    if (RSTRING_LEN(str) < 2) goto invalid_format;
    if (*s != '"') goto invalid_format;

    /* strip '"' at the start */
    s++;

    for (;;) {
        if (s >= s_end) {
            rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "unterminated dumped string");
        }

        if (*s == '"') {
            /* epilogue */
            s++;
            if (s == s_end) {
                /* ascii compatible dumped string */
                break;
            }
            else {
                static const char force_encoding_suffix[] = ".force_encoding(\""; /* "\")" */
                static const char dup_suffix[] = ".dup";
                const char *encname;
                int encidx;
                ptrdiff_t size;

                /* check separately for strings dumped by older versions */
                size = sizeof(dup_suffix) - 1;
                if (s_end - s > size && memcmp(s, dup_suffix, size) == 0) s += size;

                size = sizeof(force_encoding_suffix) - 1;
                if (s_end - s <= size) goto invalid_format;
                if (memcmp(s, force_encoding_suffix, size) != 0) goto invalid_format;
                s += size;

                if (utf8) {
                    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "dumped string contained Unicode escape but used force_encoding");
                }

                encname = s;
                s = memchr(s, '"', s_end-s);
                size = s - encname;
                if (!s) goto invalid_format;
                if (s_end - s != 2) goto invalid_format;
                if (s[0] != '"' || s[1] != ')') goto invalid_format;

                encidx = rb_enc_find_index2(encname, (long)size);
                if (encidx < 0) {
                    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "dumped string has unknown encoding name");
                }
                rb_enc_associate_index(undumped, encidx);
            }
            break;
        }

        if (*s == '\\') {
            s++;
            if (s >= s_end) {
                rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "invalid escape");
            }
            undump_after_backslash(undumped, &s, s_end, &enc, &utf8, &binary);
        }
        else {
            rb_str_cat(undumped, s++, 1);
        }
    }

    RB_GC_GUARD(str);

    return undumped;
invalid_format:
    rb_raise(rb_eRuntimeError, "invalid dumped string; not wrapped with '\"' nor '\"...\".force_encoding(\"...\")' form");
}