santoshrajan · October 11, 2017 09:18 · Oct 11, 2017
diff --git a/stringParser.swift b/stringParser.swift
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+import Foundation
+
+typealias ParseResult = (output: Any, rest: Substring)?
+
+func stringParser(input: Substring) -> ParseResult {
+    if input[input.startIndex] != "\"" {
+        return nil
+    }
+    var isEscape = true
+    let index = input.index() {
+        if $0 == "\"" && !isEscape {
+            return true
+        }
+        isEscape = $0 == "\\" ? true : false
+        return false
+    }
+    if let index = index {
+        return (input[input.index(after: input.startIndex)...input.index(before: index)],
+                input[input.index(after: index)...])
+    }
+    return nil
+}