Add more tests for small strings.

+ Add `anyasciiWrite` which writes to a zig writer directly to avoid unnecessary allocations in some use cases.
+ Use `anyasciiWrite` utf8ToAscii to avoid allocation duplicates in the previous implementation.

LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+MIT License
+
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README.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ std.debug.print("{s}", .{ascii}); // Output: "F".
 
 ```zig
 const std = @import("std");
-const anyascii = @import("anyascii").utf8ToAscii;
+const utf8ToAscii = @import("anyascii").utf8ToAscii;
 
 // A full string of UTF-8 characters to ASCII characters.
 const ascii = try utf8ToAscii(allocator, "Blöße");
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ std.debug.print("{s}", .{ascii}); // Output: "Blosse".
 In your project directory:
 
 ```shell
-zig fetch --save https://code.zeptotech.net/zedd/anyascii.zig/archive/v1.0.1.tar.gz
+zig fetch --save https://code.zeptotech.net/zedd/anyascii.zig/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz
 ```
 
 In `build.zig`:

build.zig.zon

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .{
 	.name = "anyascii.zig",
-	.version = "1.0.1",
+	.version = "1.1.0",
 	.dependencies = .{},
 
 	.paths = .{

src/lib.zig

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const c = @cImport({
 });
 
 /// Convert a unicode codepoint to its ascii equivalent.
-pub fn anyascii(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, codepoint: u21) ![]const u8 {
+pub fn anyascii(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, codepoint: u21) ![]u8 {
 	// Call C anyascii function.
 	var cChars: [*]u8 = undefined;
 	const charsCount = c.anyascii(codepoint, @ptrCast(&cChars));
@@ -18,20 +18,33 @@ pub fn anyascii(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, codepoint: u21) ![]const u8 {
 	return result;
 }
 
+/// Convert a unicode codepoint to its ascii equivalent, in the provided writer.
+pub fn anyasciiWrite(writer: std.io.AnyWriter, codepoint: u21) !void {
+	// Call C anyascii function.
+	var cChars: [*]u8 = undefined;
+	const charsCount = c.anyascii(codepoint, @ptrCast(&cChars));
+
+	// Write every byte from the raw C pointer.
+	for (0..charsCount) |i| {
+		try writer.writeByte(cChars[i]);
+	}
+}
+
 /// Convert a given UTF-8 string to its ASCII equivalent using anyascii.
-pub fn utf8ToAscii(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, str: []const u8) ![]const u8 {
+pub fn utf8ToAscii(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, str: []const u8) ![]u8 {
 	// Get a UTF8 iterator.
 	var iterator = (try std.unicode.Utf8View.init(str)).iterator();
 
-	// Initialize a out string arraylist where ascii equivalents will be appended.
+	// Initialize a out string array list where ascii equivalents will be appended.
 	var outStr = try std.ArrayList(u8).initCapacity(allocator, str.len | 15);
 	defer outStr.deinit();
 
+	// Get a writer to the array list.
+	const writer = outStr.writer().any();
+
 	// For each codepoint, convert it to ascii.
 	while (iterator.nextCodepoint()) |codepoint| {
-		const ascii = try anyascii(allocator, codepoint);
+		try anyasciiWrite(writer, codepoint);
-		defer allocator.free(ascii);
-		try outStr.appendSlice(ascii); //TODO use a writer to avoid this copy
 	}
 
 	// Return the built full ascii equivalent.
@@ -57,6 +70,8 @@ fn testAnyascii(expectedAscii: []const u8, utf8str: []const u8) !void {
 test utf8ToAscii {
 	// These examples are taken from anyascii examples, see https://github.com/anyascii/anyascii/tree/master#examples
 
+	try testUtf8ToAscii("a ", "à ");
+	try testUtf8ToAscii("a", "à");
 	try testUtf8ToAscii("Rene Francois Lacote", "René François Lacôte");
 	try testUtf8ToAscii("Blosse", "Blöße");
 	try testUtf8ToAscii("Tran Hung Dao", "Trần Hưng Đạo");