// netstring -- netstring format serialization library
// Copyright (C) 2015-2024 Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org>
//
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//
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// netstring format serialization library.
//
// This is implementation of netstring
// (http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt) format for binary string
// serialization.
//
//	var b bytes.Buffer
//	w := netstring.NewWriter(&b)
//	n, _ = w.WriteChunk([]byte("hello")) // n is 8, "5:hello,"
//	n, _ = w.WriteSize(6)                // n is 2
//	n, _ = w.Write([]byte("wor"))        // n is 3
//	n, _ = w.Write([]byte("ld!"))        // n is 3, "5:hello,6:world!,"
//	r := netstring.NewReader(&b)
//	size, err := r.Next()         // size is 5
//	r.Discard()                   // skip that chunk
//	size, err = r.Next()          // size is 6
//	data, _ := io.ReadAll(r)  // data contains "world!"
package netstring