# CST.NET

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Caret-Separated Text (or CST) is a key-value pair format represented by digits or words as keys and the value as text enclosed between carets. (e.g. ``<key> ^<text>^``) Any text which is not enclosed with carets is considered a comment and ignored. Neither strings nor comments may use the caret character. CST.NET is a library for parsing the CST format.

## Changelog

See [changelog.md](./changelog.md)

## Usage

See [usage.md](./usage.md).

## To-do

- [ ] Support for parameters (e.g. ``%1``)

## Known issues

- Skipping comments is a little unpredictable.

## Requirements

- [.NET](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) 6 or later.
- IDEs or Editors
  - [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)
  - [Visual Studio 2022](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/)
- [.NET Interactive](https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/README.md) for notebooks (optional).
  - [VSCode Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.dotnet-interactive-vscode) or [nteract](https://nteract.io/).

## License

I license this project under the BSD-3-Clause license - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.