Consumes an instance of the given string, erroring if it is not found.

Consumes the next character in the text.

Inspects the next character in the text without consuming it.

Generates an error message for parsing failures, including the highlighted context.

Skips whitespace & comments in the text.

Inspects the next `count` characters in the text without consuming them.

Consumes all contiguous characters matching a given predicate.

Advances the parser by `count` characters, consuming them.

Parses a single unicode character, supporting scape sequences.

Parses a name from the input, supporting alphanumeric characters, underscores, periods, and hyphens.

Checks if the next characters in the input start with the given string.

Generates an error message with an additional custom message.

Checks if the parser has reached the end of the input.

Parses a quoted character, like 'x'.

Parses a quoted string, like "foobar".

Parses a u64 from the input, supporting dec, hex (0xNUM), and bin (0bNUM).

Skips spaces in the text.