string_view-standalone | A custom implementation of the C17 'string_view

string_view-standalone is a C++ library. string_view-standalone has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

C++17 introduced lightweight, non-owning strings referred to as string_view to the standard. Unlike std::string, which performs memory allocations and copies for most string operations (such as substr), the string_view only observes and does not modify the entry. This can massively decrease the memory footprint and provide a large optimization for immutable strings for things like parsing and tokenization. As a result, such a type can be an asset in older c++ versions for systems that may not support the newer standards. The full type, basic_string_view is templated on a both CharT and Traits to allow viewing of contiguous char-like sequences of data, and for simple conversion between std::basic_string and basic_string_view. This string_view implementation is from the BackportCpp library, which aims to backport library types and utilities from C++14, C++17, and C++20 to be compatible with C++11 compilers. This standalone library simply offers a subset for those looking for a simple drop-in string_view implementation.