Merge pull request #165 from Philipp-Binder/feature/reintroduce-TextC…

…ombinator

Feature/reintroduce text combinator

src/Superpower/Combinators.cs

@@ -531,6 +531,22 @@ public static TextParser<T[]> ManyDelimitedBy<T, U>(this TextParser<T> parser, T
                 .OptionalOrDefault(Array.Empty<T>());
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Constructs a parser that converts a char[]-parser to a string-parser.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="parser">The parser.</param>
+        /// <returns>The resulting parser.</returns>
+        public static TextParser<string> Text(this TextParser<char[]> parser)
+            => parser.Select(chars => new string(chars));
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Constructs a parser that converts a TextSpan-parser to a string-parser.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="parser">The parser.</param>
+        /// <returns>The resulting parser.</returns>
+        public static TextParser<string> Text(this TextParser<TextSpan> parser)
+            => parser.Select(textSpan => textSpan.ToStringValue());
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Construct a parser that fails with error message <paramref name="errorMessage"/> when <paramref name="parser"/> fails.
         /// </summary>

test/Superpower.Tests/Combinators/TextCombinatorTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+using Superpower.Parsers;
+using Superpower.Tests.Support;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Superpower.Tests.Combinators;
+
+public class TextCombinatorTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void TextSucceedsWithAnyCharArrayInput()
+    {
+        AssertParser.SucceedsWith(Character.AnyChar.Many().Text(), "ab", "ab");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void TextSucceedsWithTextSpanInput()
+    {
+        AssertParser.SucceedsWith(Span.Length(2).Text(), "ab", "ab");
+    }
+}