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% Copyright (C) 2006-2007 The University of Melbourne.
% Copyright (C) 2014-2015, 2018 The Mercury team.
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% File: string.builder.m.
% Main author: maclarty.
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% This module implements a string builder stream. It can be used
% to build up a string using string or character writers.
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% To build up a string using this module, you first construct an initial
% string builder state by calling the init function. You can then use
% any instances of stream.writer that write strings or characters to update the
% string builder state, using string.builder.handle as the stream argument.
% Once you've finished writing to the string builder you can get the final
% string by calling string.builder.to_string/1.
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% For example:
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%     State0 = string.builder.init,
%     stream.string_writer.put_int(string.builder.handle, 5, State0, State),
%     Str = string.builder.to_string(State),  % Str = "5".
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:- module string.builder.
:- interface.

:- import_module char.
:- import_module stream.

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:- type handle
    --->    handle.

:- type state.

:- func init = (string.builder.state::uo) is det.

:- instance stream.stream(string.builder.handle, string.builder.state).

:- instance stream.output(string.builder.handle, string.builder.state).

:- instance stream.writer(string.builder.handle, string, string.builder.state).
:- instance stream.writer(string.builder.handle, char, string.builder.state).

:- func to_string(string.builder.state::di) = (string::uo) is det.

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