A from_str(_radix) analogue
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- Rust
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Description
Working with mostly-UTF-8 byte strings, the two biggest things my current project is missing are substring matching (which this crate provides) and integer parsing (which `std` provides only for `str`).
This is easily worked around by calling `str::from_utf8` first, because if the input is not valid UTF-8 then it would never make it through a `from_str`/`parse` or `from_str_radix` anyway.
But it would be convenient to have these functions in `bstr` as well, to avoid the overhead from that redundant `from_utf8` call.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the bstr crate's existing byte-string APIs and Rust's standard integer parsing interfaces. Determine the scope of the requested from_str and from_str_radix analogues, then verify that the resulting APIs parse byte strings without requiring an initial UTF-8 conversion and cover the behavior described in the issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100