Iterators which split strings on Grapheme Cluster or Word boundaries, according to the Unicode Standard Annex #29 rules.

Documentation

use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation;

fn main() {
    let s = "a̐éö̲\r\n";
    let g = s.graphemes(true).collect::<Vec<&str>>();
    let b: &[_] = &["a̐", "é", "ö̲", "\r\n"];
    assert_eq!(g, b);

    let s = "The quick (\"brown\") fox can't jump 32.3 feet, right?";
    let w = s.unicode_words().collect::<Vec<&str>>();
    let b: &[_] = &["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "can't", "jump", "32.3", "feet", "right"];
    assert_eq!(w, b);

    let s = "The quick (\"brown\")  fox";
    let w = s.split_word_bounds().collect::<Vec<&str>>();
    let b: &[_] = &["The", " ", "quick", " ", "(", "\"", "brown", "\"", ")", " ", " ", "fox"];
    assert_eq!(w, b);
}

unicode-segmentation does not depend on libstd, so it can be used in crates with the #![no_std] attribute.

You can use this package in your project by adding the following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
unicode-segmentation = "1.6.0"

• #72 Upgrade to Unicode 12

• #68 Upgrade to Unicode 11

• #56 Upgrade to Unicode 10

• #24 Add support for sentence boundaries
• #44 Treat gc=No as a subset of gc=N

• #37: Fix panic in provide_context.
• #40: Fix crash in prev_boundary.

• New GraphemeCursor API allows random access and bidirectional iteration.
• Fixed incorrect splitting of certain emoji modifier sequences.

• Add as_str methods to the iterator types.

• Code cleanup and additional tests.

• Fix a bug affecting some grapheme clusters containing Prepend characters.

• Upgrade to Unicode 9.0.0.