From 7fad5e53aff5840f44387d727d5857774eac26ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "A.M. Rowsell" <amrowsell@frozenelectronics.ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:20:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] dev: added some string helper functions, updated gitignore

---
 .gitignore       |  1 +
 inc/strFuncs.hpp | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 strFuncs.cpp     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 inc/strFuncs.hpp
 create mode 100644 strFuncs.cpp

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f034f68..18a9398 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -39,3 +39,4 @@ chessmcu_default/
 
 # End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/mplabx
 
+localTest/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/inc/strFuncs.hpp b/inc/strFuncs.hpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ea4945
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inc/strFuncs.hpp
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/* 
+ * File:   strFuncs.hpp
+ * Author: amr
+ *
+ * Created on August 27, 2025, 12:58 PM
+ */
+
+#ifndef STRFUNCS_HPP
+#define	STRFUNCS_HPP
+
+#include <string>
+#include <sstream>
+#include <vector>
+#include <iterator>
+
+template <typename Out>
+void split(const std::string &s, char delim, Out result);
+
+std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string &s, char delim);
+
+
+#endif	/* STRFUNCS_HPP */
+
diff --git a/strFuncs.cpp b/strFuncs.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e09da6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/strFuncs.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include "inc/strFuncs.hpp"
+
+template <typename Out>
+void split(const std::string &s, char delim, Out result) {
+    std::istringstream iss(s);
+    std::string item;
+    while (std::getline(iss, item, delim)) {
+        *result++ = item;
+    }
+}
+
+std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string &s, char delim) {
+    std::vector<std::string> elems;
+    split(s, delim, std::back_inserter(elems));
+    return elems;
+}