refactor: introduce single-separator split helper `SplitString`

This helper uses spanparsing::Split internally and enables to replace
all calls to boost::split where only a single separator is passed.

Co-authored-by: Martin Ankerl <Martin.Ankerl@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/spanparsing.cpp b/src/util/spanparsing.cpp
index 50f6aee419..8614bd1176 100644
--- a/src/util/spanparsing.cpp
+++ b/src/util/spanparsing.cpp
@@ -48,20 +48,4 @@ Span<const char> Expr(Span<const char>& sp)
     return ret;
 }
 
-std::vector<Span<const char>> Split(const Span<const char>& sp, char sep)
-{
-    std::vector<Span<const char>> ret;
-    auto it = sp.begin();
-    auto start = it;
-    while (it != sp.end()) {
-        if (*it == sep) {
-            ret.emplace_back(start, it);
-            start = it + 1;
-        }
-        ++it;
-    }
-    ret.emplace_back(start, it);
-    return ret;
-}
-
 } // namespace spanparsing
diff --git a/src/util/spanparsing.h b/src/util/spanparsing.h
index fa2e698e6d..ebec8714a7 100644
--- a/src/util/spanparsing.h
+++ b/src/util/spanparsing.h
@@ -43,7 +43,22 @@ Span<const char> Expr(Span<const char>& sp);
  * Note that this function does not care about braces, so splitting
  * "foo(bar(1),2),3) on ',' will return {"foo(bar(1)", "2)", "3)"}.
  */
-std::vector<Span<const char>> Split(const Span<const char>& sp, char sep);
+template <typename T = Span<const char>>
+std::vector<T> Split(const Span<const char>& sp, char sep)
+{
+    std::vector<T> ret;
+    auto it = sp.begin();
+    auto start = it;
+    while (it != sp.end()) {
+        if (*it == sep) {
+            ret.emplace_back(start, it);
+            start = it + 1;
+        }
+        ++it;
+    }
+    ret.emplace_back(start, it);
+    return ret;
+}
 
 } // namespace spanparsing
 
diff --git a/src/util/string.h b/src/util/string.h
index a3b8df8d78..bcd6905fd5 100644
--- a/src/util/string.h
+++ b/src/util/string.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #define BITCOIN_UTIL_STRING_H
 
 #include <attributes.h>
+#include <util/spanparsing.h>
 
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <array>
@@ -15,6 +16,11 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
+[[nodiscard]] inline std::vector<std::string> SplitString(std::string_view str, char sep)
+{
+    return spanparsing::Split<std::string>(str, sep);
+}
+
 [[nodiscard]] inline std::string TrimString(const std::string& str, const std::string& pattern = " \f\n\r\t\v")
 {
     std::string::size_type front = str.find_first_not_of(pattern);