+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Get the current time of the system in a dicom string
+ */
+std::string Util::GetCurrentTime()
+{
+ char tmp[512];
+ time_t tloc;
+ time (&tloc);
+ strftime(tmp,512,"%H%M%S", localtime(&tloc) );
+ return tmp;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Create a /DICOM/ string:
+ * It should a of even length (no odd length ever)
+ * It can contain as many (if you are reading this from your
+ * editor the following character is is backslash followed by zero
+ * that needed to be escaped with an extra backslash for doxygen) \\0
+ * as you want.
+ */
+std::string Util::DicomString(const char* s, size_t l)
+{
+ std::string r(s, s+l);
+ assert( !(r.size() % 2) ); // == basically 'l' is even
+ return r;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Create a /DICOM/ string:
+ * It should a of even lenght (no odd length ever)
+ * It can contain as many (if you are reading this from your
+ * editor the following character is is backslash followed by zero
+ * that needed to be escaped with an extra backslash for doxygen) \\0
+ * as you want.
+ * This function is similar to DicomString(const char*),
+ * except it doesn't take a lenght.
+ * It only pad with a null character if length is odd
+ */
+std::string Util::DicomString(const char* s)
+{
+ size_t l = strlen(s);
+ if( l%2 )
+ {
+ l++;
+ }
+ std::string r(s, s+l);
+ assert( !(r.size() % 2) );
+ return r;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Safely compare two Dicom String:
+ * - Both string should be of even lenght
+ * - We allow padding of even lenght string by either a null
+ * character of a space
+ */
+bool Util::DicomStringEqual(const std::string& s1, const char *s2)
+{
+ // s2 is the string from the DICOM reference: 'MONOCHROME1'
+ std::string s1_even = s1; //Never change input parameter
+ std::string s2_even = DicomString( s2 );
+ if( s1_even[s1_even.size()-1] == ' ')
+ {
+ s1_even[s1_even.size()-1] = '\0'; //replace space character by null
+ }
+ return s1_even == s2_even;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Return the IP adress of the machine writting the DICOM image
+ */
+std::string Util::GetIPAddress()
+{
+ // This is a rip from http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/I-N/internet/network/article.php/c3445/
+#ifndef HOST_NAME_MAX
+ // SUSv2 guarantees that `Host names are limited to 255 bytes'.
+ // POSIX 1003.1-2001 guarantees that `Host names (not including the
+ // terminating NUL) are limited to HOST_NAME_MAX bytes'.
+# define HOST_NAME_MAX 255
+ // In this case we should maybe check the string was not truncated.
+ // But I don't known how to check that...
+#endif //HOST_NAME_MAX
+
+ std::string str;
+ char szHostName[HOST_NAME_MAX+1];
+ int r = gethostname(szHostName, HOST_NAME_MAX);
+
+ if( r == 0 )
+ {
+ // Get host adresses
+ struct hostent * pHost = gethostbyname(szHostName);
+
+ for( int i = 0; pHost!= NULL && pHost->h_addr_list[i]!= NULL; i++ )
+ {
+ for( int j = 0; j<pHost->h_length; j++ )
+ {
+ if( j > 0 ) str += ".";
+
+ str += Util::Format("%u",
+ (unsigned int)((unsigned char*)pHost->h_addr_list[i])[j]);
+ }
+ // str now contains one local IP address
+ }
+ }
+ // If an error occur r == -1
+ // Most of the time it will return 127.0.0.1...
+ return str;