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Add documenting comments to spanparsing.h

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Pieter Wuille 2019-09-18 12:25:55 -07:00
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namespace spanparsing {
/** Parse a constant. If successful, sp is updated to skip the constant and return true. */
/** Parse a constant.
*
* If sp's initial part matches str, sp is updated to skip that part, and true is returned.
* Otherwise sp is unmodified and false is returned.
*/
bool Const(const std::string& str, Span<const char>& sp);
/** Parse a function call. If successful, sp is updated to be the function's argument(s). */
/** Parse a function call.
*
* If sp's initial part matches str + "(", and sp ends with ")", sp is updated to be the
* section between the braces, and true is returned. Otherwise sp is unmodified and false
* is returned.
*/
bool Func(const std::string& str, Span<const char>& sp);
/** Return the expression that sp begins with, and update sp to skip it. */
/** Extract the expression that sp begins with.
*
* This function will return the initial part of sp, up to (but not including) the first
* comma or closing brace, skipping ones that are surrounded by braces. So for example,
* for "foo(bar(1),2),3" the initial part "foo(bar(1),2)" will be returned. sp will be
* updated to skip the initial part that is returned.
*/
Span<const char> Expr(Span<const char>& sp);
/** Split a string on every instance of sep, returning a vector. */
/** Split a string on every instance of sep, returning a vector.
*
* If sep does not occur in sp, a singleton with the entirety of sp is returned.
*
* Note that this function does not care about braces, so splitting
* "foo(bar(1),2),3) on ',' will return {"foo(bar(1)", "2)", "3)"}.
*/
std::vector<Span<const char>> Split(const Span<const char>& sp, char sep);
} // namespace spanparsing