decodevarname.m

function newname = decodevarname(name, varargin)
%
%    newname = decodevarname(name)
%
%    Decode a hex-encoded variable name (from encodevarname) and restore
%    its original form
%
%    This function is sensitive to the default charset
%    settings in MATLAB, please call feature('DefaultCharacterSet','utf8')
%    to set the encoding to UTF-8 before calling this function.
%
%    author: Qianqian Fang (q.fang <at> neu.edu)
%
%    input:
%        name: a string output from encodevarname, which converts the leading non-ascii
%              letter into "x0xHH_" and non-ascii letters into "_0xHH_"
%              format, where hex key HH stores the ascii (or Unicode) value
%              of the character.
%
%    output:
%        newname: the restored original string
%
%    example:
%        decodevarname('x0x5F_a')   % returns _a
%        decodevarname('a_')   % returns a_ as it is a valid variable name
%        decodevarname('x0xE58F98__0xE9878F_')  % returns '变量'
%
%    this file is part of EasyH5 Toolbox: https://github.com/NeuroJSON/easyh5
%
%    License: GPLv3 or 3-clause BSD license, see https://github.com/NeuroJSON/easyh5 for details
%

newname = name;
isunpack = 1;
if (nargin == 2 && ~isstruct(varargin{1}))
    isunpack = varargin{1};
elseif (nargin > 1)
    isunpack = jsonopt('UnpackHex', 1, varargin{:});
end

if (isunpack)
    if (isempty(strfind(name, '0x')) || isempty(regexp(name, '0x([0-9a-fA-F]+)_', 'once')))
        return
    end
    if (exist('native2unicode', 'builtin'))
        h2u = @hex2unicode;
        newname = regexprep(name, '(^x|_){1}0x([0-9a-fA-F]+)_', '${h2u($2)}');
    else
        if (isunpack && strcmp(name, 'x0x0_'))
            newname = '';
            return
        end
        pos = regexp(name, '(^x|_){1}0x([0-9a-fA-F]+)_', 'start');
        pend = regexp(name, '(^x|_){1}0x([0-9a-fA-F]+)_', 'end');
        if (isempty(pos))
            return
        end
        str0 = name;
        pos0 = [0 pend(:)' length(name)];
        newname = '';
        for i = 1:length(pos)
            newname = [newname str0(pos0(i) + 1:pos(i) - 1) char(hex2dec(str0(pos(i) + 3:pend(i) - 1)))];
        end
        if (pos(end) ~= length(name))
            newname = [newname str0(pos0(end - 1) + 1:pos0(end))];
        end
    end
end

% --------------------------------------------------------------------------
function str = hex2unicode(hexstr)
val = hex2dec(hexstr);
id = histc(val, [0 2^8 2^16 2^32 2^64]);
type = {'uint8', 'uint16', 'uint32', 'uint64'};
bytes = typecast(cast(val, type{id ~= 0}), 'uint8');
str = native2unicode(fliplr(bytes(:, 1:find(bytes, 1, 'last'))));