Crate strtools

This crate provides the StrTools trait which exposes a variety of helper functions for handling strings for use cases like handling user input.

Examples

// split a string by some separator but ignore escaped ones
let parts: Vec<_> = r"this string\ is split by\ spaces unless they are\ escaped"
    .split_non_escaped('\\', &[' '])?
    .collect();

assert_eq!(
    parts,
    [
        "this",
        "string is",
        "split",
        "by spaces",
        "unless",
        "they",
        "are escaped"
    ]
);

Modules

escape

Contains functions and types related to escaping strings.

Traits

StrTools

The main trait of this crate, providing various extension methods for str. See the individual function documentation for more info.