Feature: Parse a single line

[fubar-coder]

Description

It would be nice if I'd be able to parse a single line. The function signature might look like:

// without options
YourType ParseData(ReadOnlySpan<char> line);

// with options
YourType ParseData(ReadOnlySpan<char> line, Options<char> option);

// without options, but bytes instead of char
YourType ParseData(ReadOnlySpan<byte> line);

// with options, but bytes instead of char
YourType ParseData(ReadOnlySpan<byte> line, Options<char> option);

Reason

• Parallelization of line parsing
• Avoid allocation of List or similar

Other

Maybe support for lines without newline characters could be limited to single line parsing?

[LokiMidgard]

So the difference is mainly the return type I guess?
Maybe I look at this when I look at #3 (if it dose not require to much restructuring)

[LokiMidgard]

While not impossible, I currently don't think I will find the time to rewrite this. But I will write down my thoughts…

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1. The return type can't be used to switch between single row and mult row (dose it implement an collection or not)
   Since a custom type could implement an Collection interface it could not distinct
2. Using an additonal parameter in the attribute,
   This could disable the collection check, and instead of adding the value to an collection, it will simply retrun the first value. No newline handling at all is needede then…
3. Having a special struct like ValueTuple as wrapper, probably less demanding when it comes to allocations, would be easy to implement but seems like hacked…