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);
}

no_std

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

crates.io

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

[dependencies]
unicode-segmentation = "1.10.1"

Change Log

1.11.0

#124 Update data to Unicode 15.1
#128 Add size_hint to iterators

1.10.1

#113 Use criterion.rs for word benchmarks
#112 Improve table search speed through lookups

1.10.0

#107 Upgrade to Unicode 15.0.0
#104 Supersedes and fixes #75

1.9.0

#101 Upgrade to Unicode 14.0.0

1.8.0

#100 * #100 - Increase #[inline] opportunities, resulting in 15-40% performance improvement.
#95 Implement debug for Graphemes
#94 Add Initial fuzzer for oss-fuzz integration
#93 Fix unused imports and deprecated pattern warnings
#91 Made local variable immutable by moving it into loop
#91 Add new iterator UnicodeWordIndices and unicode_word_indices

1.7.1

Update docs on version number

1.7.0

#87 Upgrade to Unicode 13
#79 Implement a special-case lookup for ascii grapheme categories
#77 Optimization for grapheme iteration

1.6.0

#72 Upgrade to Unicode 12

1.5.0

#68 Upgrade to Unicode 11

1.4.0

#56 Upgrade to Unicode 10

1.3.0

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

1.2.1

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

1.2.0

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

1.1.0

Add as_str methods to the iterator types.

1.0.3

Code cleanup and additional tests.

1.0.1

Fix a bug affecting some grapheme clusters containing Prepend characters.

1.0.0

Upgrade to Unicode 9.0.0.