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+// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package doc
+
+import "unicode"
+
+// firstSentenceLen returns the length of the first sentence in s.
+// The sentence ends after the first period followed by space and
+// not preceded by exactly one uppercase letter.
+//
+func firstSentenceLen(s string) int {
+ var ppp, pp, p rune
+ for i, q := range s {
+ if q == '\n' || q == '\r' || q == '\t' {
+ q = ' '
+ }
+ if q == ' ' && p == '.' && (!unicode.IsUpper(pp) || unicode.IsUpper(ppp)) {
+ return i
+ }
+ ppp, pp, p = pp, p, q
+ }
+ return len(s)
+}
+
+// Synopsis returns a cleaned version of the first sentence in s.
+// That sentence ends after the first period followed by space and
+// not preceded by exactly one uppercase letter. The result string
+// has no \n, \r, or \t characters and uses only single spaces between
+// words.
+//
+func Synopsis(s string) string {
+ n := firstSentenceLen(s)
+ var b []byte
+ p := byte(' ')
+ for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+ q := s[i]
+ if q == '\n' || q == '\r' || q == '\t' {
+ q = ' '
+ }
+ if q != ' ' || p != ' ' {
+ b = append(b, q)
+ p = q
+ }
+ }
+ // remove trailing blank, if any
+ if n := len(b); n > 0 && p == ' ' {
+ b = b[0 : n-1]
+ }
+ return string(b)
+}