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+#pragma once
+///@file
+
+#include "error.hh"
+#include "types.hh"
+
+#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace nix {
+
+/**
+ * Tree formatting.
+ */
+constexpr char treeConn[] = "├───";
+constexpr char treeLast[] = "└───";
+constexpr char treeLine[] = "│   ";
+constexpr char treeNull[] = "    ";
+
+/**
+ * Convert a list of strings to a null-terminated vector of `char
+ * *`s. The result must not be accessed beyond the lifetime of the
+ * list of strings.
+ */
+std::vector<char *> stringsToCharPtrs(const Strings & ss);
+
+
+MakeError(FormatError, Error);
+
+
+/**
+ * String tokenizer.
+ */
+template<class C> C tokenizeString(std::string_view s, std::string_view separators = " \t\n\r");
+
+
+/**
+ * Concatenate the given strings with a separator between the
+ * elements.
+ */
+template<class C>
+std::string concatStringsSep(const std::string_view sep, const C & ss)
+{
+    size_t size = 0;
+    // need a cast to string_view since this is also called with Symbols
+    for (const auto & s : ss) size += sep.size() + std::string_view(s).size();
+    std::string s;
+    s.reserve(size);
+    for (auto & i : ss) {
+        if (s.size() != 0) s += sep;
+        s += i;
+    }
+    return s;
+}
+
+template<class ... Parts>
+auto concatStrings(Parts && ... parts)
+    -> std::enable_if_t<(... && std::is_convertible_v<Parts, std::string_view>), std::string>
+{
+    std::string_view views[sizeof...(parts)] = { parts... };
+    return concatStringsSep({}, views);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Add quotes around a collection of strings.
+ */
+template<class C> Strings quoteStrings(const C & c)
+{
+    Strings res;
+    for (auto & s : c)
+        res.push_back("'" + s + "'");
+    return res;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Remove trailing whitespace from a string.
+ *
+ * \todo return std::string_view.
+ */
+std::string chomp(std::string_view s);
+
+
+/**
+ * Remove whitespace from the start and end of a string.
+ */
+std::string trim(std::string_view s, std::string_view whitespace = " \n\r\t");
+
+
+/**
+ * Replace all occurrences of a string inside another string.
+ */
+std::string replaceStrings(
+    std::string s,
+    std::string_view from,
+    std::string_view to);
+
+
+/**
+ * Rewrites a string given a map of replacements, applying the replacements in
+ * sorted order, only once, considering only the strings appearing in the input
+ * string in performing replacement.
+ *
+ * - Replacements are not performed on intermediate strings. That is, for an input
+ *   `"abb"` with replacements `{"ab" -> "ba"}`, the result is `"bab"`.
+ * - Transitive replacements are not performed. For example, for the input `"abcde"`
+ *   with replacements `{"a" -> "b", "b" -> "c", "e" -> "b"}`, the result is
+ *   `"bccdb"`.
+ */
+class Rewriter
+{
+private:
+    std::string initials;
+    std::map<std::string, std::string> rewrites;
+
+public:
+    explicit Rewriter(std::map<std::string, std::string> rewrites);
+
+    std::string operator()(std::string s);
+};
+
+inline std::string rewriteStrings(std::string s, const StringMap & rewrites)
+{
+    return Rewriter(rewrites)(s);
+}
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Parse a string into an integer.
+ */
+template<class N>
+std::optional<N> string2Int(const std::string_view s)
+{
+    if (s.substr(0, 1) == "-" && !std::numeric_limits<N>::is_signed)
+        return std::nullopt;
+    try {
+        return boost::lexical_cast<N>(s.data(), s.size());
+    } catch (const boost::bad_lexical_cast &) {
+        return std::nullopt;
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Like string2Int(), but support an optional suffix 'K', 'M', 'G' or
+ * 'T' denoting a binary unit prefix.
+ */
+template<class N>
+N string2IntWithUnitPrefix(std::string_view s)
+{
+    N multiplier = 1;
+    if (!s.empty()) {
+        char u = std::toupper(*s.rbegin());
+        if (std::isalpha(u)) {
+            if (u == 'K') multiplier = 1ULL << 10;
+            else if (u == 'M') multiplier = 1ULL << 20;
+            else if (u == 'G') multiplier = 1ULL << 30;
+            else if (u == 'T') multiplier = 1ULL << 40;
+            else throw UsageError("invalid unit specifier '%1%'", u);
+            s.remove_suffix(1);
+        }
+    }
+    if (auto n = string2Int<N>(s))
+        return *n * multiplier;
+    throw UsageError("'%s' is not an integer", s);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse a string into a float.
+ */
+template<class N>
+std::optional<N> string2Float(const std::string_view s)
+{
+    try {
+        return boost::lexical_cast<N>(s.data(), s.size());
+    } catch (const boost::bad_lexical_cast &) {
+        return std::nullopt;
+    }
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Convert a little-endian integer to host order.
+ */
+template<typename T>
+T readLittleEndian(unsigned char * p)
+{
+    T x = 0;
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(x); ++i, ++p) {
+        x |= ((T) *p) << (i * 8);
+    }
+    return x;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a string to lower case.
+ */
+std::string toLower(const std::string & s);
+
+
+/**
+ * Escape a string as a shell word.
+ */
+std::string shellEscape(const std::string_view s);
+
+/**
+ * Base64 encoding/decoding.
+ */
+std::string base64Encode(std::string_view s);
+std::string base64Decode(std::string_view s);
+
+
+/**
+ * Remove common leading whitespace from the lines in the string
+ * 's'. For example, if every line is indented by at least 3 spaces,
+ * then we remove 3 spaces from the start of every line.
+ */
+std::string stripIndentation(std::string_view s);
+
+/**
+ * Get the prefix of 's' up to and excluding the next line break (LF
+ * optionally preceded by CR), and the remainder following the line
+ * break.
+ */
+std::pair<std::string_view, std::string_view> getLine(std::string_view s);
+
+std::string showBytes(uint64_t bytes);
+
+
+/**
+ * Provide an addition operator between strings and string_views
+ * inexplicably omitted from the standard library.
+ */
+inline std::string operator + (const std::string & s1, std::string_view s2)
+{
+    auto s = s1;
+    s.append(s2);
+    return s;
+}
+
+inline std::string operator + (std::string && s, std::string_view s2)
+{
+    s.append(s2);
+    return std::move(s);
+}
+
+inline std::string operator + (std::string_view s1, const char * s2)
+{
+    std::string s;
+    s.reserve(s1.size() + strlen(s2));
+    s.append(s1);
+    s.append(s2);
+    return s;
+}
+
+}