Lib.rs

Efficiently split lines by whitespace, while handling the backslash escape sequences in Rust-like string format.

For example, if you had a string like:

  One\ two three\ four

Naïve splitting on whitespace would produce four outputs:

• One\
• two
• three\
• four

This crate will instead produce two strings:

• One two
• three four

This crate also handles special escape sequences like "\n", which represents a newline. Specifically, the escape sequences are:

• \a
• \b
• \t
• \n
• \v
• \f
• \r
• \\

If the backslash character is found, but the successive character is not special, then the backslash is disregarded and the successive character is included verbatim.