byte_reader

A minimal byte-by-byte reader for parsing input.

Use case

Following situation:

I want to read and parse some input, but it's not so large-scale parsing task, so I'd like to avoid adding a heavyweight crate like nom or nom8 to my dependencies ...

Usage

```rust use byte_reader::Reader;

fn main() { // Get an input from a File, standard input, or another source // Input can be &str, String, &[u8], or Vec<u8> let sampleinput = "Hello, bytereader!";

// Create mutable `r`
let mut r = Reader::new(sample_input);

// Use some simple operations
// to parse the input
r.consume("Hello").unwrap();
r.consume(",").unwrap();
r.skip_whitespace();
let name = r.read_snake().unwrap(); // byte_reader
r.consume("!").unwrap();

println!("Greeted to `{name}`.");

} ```

Operations

• advance_by, unwind_by
• next, next_if
• peek, peek2, peek3
• consume, consume_oneof
• skip_while, skip_whitespace
• read_while
• read_uint, read_int
• read_string, read_string_unchecked
• read_camel, read_snake, read_kebab

Features

• "location"

You can track the reader's parsing location ( line and column ) in the input bytes.

```rust /* enable "location" feature */ use byte_reader::Reader;

fn main() { let mut r = Reader::new("Hello, byte_reader!");

r.consume("Hello").unwrap();
r.consume(",").unwrap();
r.skip_whitespace();
let name_line   = r.line;   // 1
let name_column = r.column; // 11
let name = r.read_snake().unwrap(); // byte_reader
r.consume("!").unwrap();

println!("Greeted to `{name}`.");
println!("In the input, the name starts at column {name_column} of line {name_line}");

} ```