CommonFunctions.h

#ifndef COMMON_FUNCTIONS_H
#define COMMON_FUNCTIONS_H



// A handful of helpful commonly-used functions.



#include <string>



namespace commonItems
{

constexpr auto utf8BOM = "\xEF\xBB\xBF";

} // namespace commonItems


// Given a string (such as 'a file name.eu4'), replaces all instances of the specified character (such as ' ') with underscores (resulting in 'a_file_name.eu4')
std::string replaceCharacter(std::string fileName, char character);


// Given a cardinal number (1, 2, 15), returns the equivalent ordinal word ending ('st', 'nd', 'th') for appending to the numbers ('1st', '2nd', '15th')
std::string cardinalToOrdinal(int cardinal);


// Given a number (3, 12, 2020), returns the number in roman numerals ('III', 'XII', 'MMXX')
std::string cardinalToRoman(int number);


// Given a path, normalizes it in a standard way for all converters that all supported Paradox games will recognize (by replacing all spaces, dashes, and other
// weird characters (<, >, :, ?...) with underscores, and by converting entire string into ASCII)
std::string normalizeStringPath(const std::string& stringPath);



#endif // COMMON_FUNCTIONS_H