escapeNixIdentifier
lib.strings.escapeNixIdentifier
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Quotes a string s if it can't be used as an identifier directly.
Inputs
s- 1. Function argument
Type
escapeNixIdentifier :: string -> string
Examples
lib.strings.escapeNixIdentifier usage example
escapeNixIdentifier "hello"
=> "hello"
escapeNixIdentifier "0abc"
=> "\"0abc\""
Noogle detected
Implementation
The following is the current implementation of this function.
escapeNixIdentifier = s:
# Regex from https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/d048577909e383439c2549e849c5c2f2016c997e/src/libexpr/lexer.l#L91
if match "[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_'-]*" s != null
then s else escapeNixString s;