This is part of a series of posts documenting Sprache. Last time was all about parsing single characters, and all of the parsers returned char. This post is about parsing strings.

Sprache is a C# parser combinator library. Its a really well-written library but it suffers from a lack of documentation, meaning the only way to figure out how to use it is to hunt for blog posts and examples, or to start digging through the source code. I’ve chosen the latter option. This post will be part of a series picking apart and documenting each method in Sprache with examples in XUnit test syntax.

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