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+// Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
+
+#ifndef ABSL_HAVE_STD_STRING_VIEW
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <climits>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <ostream>
+
+#include "absl/strings/internal/memutil.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+
+namespace {
+void WritePadding(std::ostream& o, size_t pad) {
+  char fill_buf[32];
+  memset(fill_buf, o.fill(), sizeof(fill_buf));
+  while (pad) {
+    size_t n = std::min(pad, sizeof(fill_buf));
+    o.write(fill_buf, n);
+    pad -= n;
+  }
+}
+
+class LookupTable {
+ public:
+  // For each character in wanted, sets the index corresponding
+  // to the ASCII code of that character. This is used by
+  // the find_.*_of methods below to tell whether or not a character is in
+  // the lookup table in constant time.
+  explicit LookupTable(string_view wanted) {
+    for (char c : wanted) {
+      table_[Index(c)] = true;
+    }
+  }
+  bool operator[](char c) const { return table_[Index(c)]; }
+
+ private:
+  static unsigned char Index(char c) { return static_cast<unsigned char>(c); }
+  bool table_[UCHAR_MAX + 1] = {};
+};
+
+}  // namespace
+
+std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, string_view piece) {
+  std::ostream::sentry sentry(o);
+  if (sentry) {
+    size_t lpad = 0;
+    size_t rpad = 0;
+    if (static_cast<size_t>(o.width()) > piece.size()) {
+      size_t pad = o.width() - piece.size();
+      if ((o.flags() & o.adjustfield) == o.left) {
+        rpad = pad;
+      } else {
+        lpad = pad;
+      }
+    }
+    if (lpad) WritePadding(o, lpad);
+    o.write(piece.data(), piece.size());
+    if (rpad) WritePadding(o, rpad);
+    o.width(0);
+  }
+  return o;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find(string_view s, size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty() || pos > length_) {
+    if (empty() && pos == 0 && s.empty()) return 0;
+    return npos;
+  }
+  const char* result =
+      strings_internal::memmatch(ptr_ + pos, length_ - pos, s.ptr_, s.length_);
+  return result ? result - ptr_ : npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find(char c, size_type pos) const noexcept {
+  if (empty() || pos >= length_) {
+    return npos;
+  }
+  const char* result =
+      static_cast<const char*>(memchr(ptr_ + pos, c, length_ - pos));
+  return result != nullptr ? result - ptr_ : npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::rfind(string_view s, size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (length_ < s.length_) return npos;
+  if (s.empty()) return std::min(length_, pos);
+  const char* last = ptr_ + std::min(length_ - s.length_, pos) + s.length_;
+  const char* result = std::find_end(ptr_, last, s.ptr_, s.ptr_ + s.length_);
+  return result != last ? result - ptr_ : npos;
+}
+
+// Search range is [0..pos] inclusive.  If pos == npos, search everything.
+string_view::size_type string_view::rfind(char c, size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  // Note: memrchr() is not available on Windows.
+  if (empty()) return npos;
+  for (size_type i = std::min(pos, length_ - 1);; --i) {
+    if (ptr_[i] == c) {
+      return i;
+    }
+    if (i == 0) break;
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_first_of(string_view s,
+                                                  size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty() || s.empty()) {
+    return npos;
+  }
+  // Avoid the cost of LookupTable() for a single-character search.
+  if (s.length_ == 1) return find_first_of(s.ptr_[0], pos);
+  LookupTable tbl(s);
+  for (size_type i = pos; i < length_; ++i) {
+    if (tbl[ptr_[i]]) {
+      return i;
+    }
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_first_not_of(string_view s,
+                                                      size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty()) return npos;
+  // Avoid the cost of LookupTable() for a single-character search.
+  if (s.length_ == 1) return find_first_not_of(s.ptr_[0], pos);
+  LookupTable tbl(s);
+  for (size_type i = pos; i < length_; ++i) {
+    if (!tbl[ptr_[i]]) {
+      return i;
+    }
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_first_not_of(char c,
+                                                      size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty()) return npos;
+  for (; pos < length_; ++pos) {
+    if (ptr_[pos] != c) {
+      return pos;
+    }
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_last_of(string_view s,
+                                                 size_type pos) const noexcept {
+  if (empty() || s.empty()) return npos;
+  // Avoid the cost of LookupTable() for a single-character search.
+  if (s.length_ == 1) return find_last_of(s.ptr_[0], pos);
+  LookupTable tbl(s);
+  for (size_type i = std::min(pos, length_ - 1);; --i) {
+    if (tbl[ptr_[i]]) {
+      return i;
+    }
+    if (i == 0) break;
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_last_not_of(string_view s,
+                                                     size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty()) return npos;
+  size_type i = std::min(pos, length_ - 1);
+  if (s.empty()) return i;
+  // Avoid the cost of LookupTable() for a single-character search.
+  if (s.length_ == 1) return find_last_not_of(s.ptr_[0], pos);
+  LookupTable tbl(s);
+  for (;; --i) {
+    if (!tbl[ptr_[i]]) {
+      return i;
+    }
+    if (i == 0) break;
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+string_view::size_type string_view::find_last_not_of(char c,
+                                                     size_type pos) const
+    noexcept {
+  if (empty()) return npos;
+  size_type i = std::min(pos, length_ - 1);
+  for (;; --i) {
+    if (ptr_[i] != c) {
+      return i;
+    }
+    if (i == 0) break;
+  }
+  return npos;
+}
+
+// MSVC has non-standard behavior that implicitly creates definitions for static
+// const members. These implicit definitions conflict with explicit out-of-class
+// member definitions that are required by the C++ standard, resulting in
+// LNK1169 "multiply defined" errors at link time. __declspec(selectany) asks
+// MSVC to choose only one definition for the symbol it decorates. See details
+// at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34h23df8(v=vs.100).aspx
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+#define ABSL_STRING_VIEW_SELECTANY __declspec(selectany)
+#else
+#define ABSL_STRING_VIEW_SELECTANY
+#endif
+
+ABSL_STRING_VIEW_SELECTANY
+constexpr string_view::size_type string_view::npos;
+ABSL_STRING_VIEW_SELECTANY
+constexpr string_view::size_type string_view::kMaxSize;
+
+}  // namespace absl
+
+#endif  // ABSL_HAVE_STD_STRING_VIEW