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// Name....: charutil.h
// Date....: 10/20/99
// Creator.: Brian McFeely (bmcfeely)
//
// [Description]
//

#ifndef __CHARUTIL_H
#define __CHARUTIL_H

// TODO:BAM -- get rid of this class and just use tss::strinc() !!!!!
class cCharUtil
{
public:


    // finds the next whole character in string identified by ['cur'-'end')
    // identifies beginning of char in 'first', then end of character in 'last'
    // returns 'are there more characters in string?'
    // if there are no more characters, will return 0 and first = last = end
    static bool PeekNextChar( const TSTRING::const_iterator& cur, 
                              const TSTRING::const_iterator& end, 
                                    TSTRING::const_iterator& first, 
                                    TSTRING::const_iterator& last );
    
    // same as PeekNextChar but increments 'cur' to 'last'
    static bool PopNextChar(    TSTRING::const_iterator& cur, 
                          const TSTRING::const_iterator& end, 
                                TSTRING::const_iterator& first, 
                                TSTRING::const_iterator& last );
};

#endif//__CHARUTIL_H

