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# CSTNet
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Caret-Separated Text (or CST) is a key-value pair format represented by digits or words as keys and the value as text enclosed between carets. (e.g. ``<key> ^<text>^``) Any text which is not enclosed with carets is considered a comment and ignored. Neither strings nor comments may use the caret character. CST.NET is a library for parsing the CST format.
CST.NET uses .NET's built-in indexing extension function to accomplish locating of each respective key. As a consequence, it does not matter what you use for keys. I added an additional normalization to the pipeline that converts the document's line endings to the system's, in order to prevent crashes.
## Usage
See [usage.md](./usage.md).
## To-do
- [ ] Support for arguments (e.g. ``%1``)
## Known issues
- Skipping comments is a little unpredictable.
## Requirements
- [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) 6 or later.
- [.NET Interactive](https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/README.md) for notebooks (optional).
- [VSCode Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.dotnet-interactive-vscode) or [nteract](https://nteract.io/).
## License
I license this project under the MIT license - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.