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+// Copyright (c) 2018-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_SCRIPT_PARSING_H
+#define BITCOIN_SCRIPT_PARSING_H
+
+#include <span.h>
+
+#include <string>
+
+namespace script {
+
+/** Parse a constant.
+ *
+ * If sp's initial part matches str, sp is updated to skip that part, and true is returned.
+ * Otherwise sp is unmodified and false is returned.
+ */
+bool Const(const std::string& str, Span<const char>& sp);
+
+/** Parse a function call.
+ *
+ * If sp's initial part matches str + "(", and sp ends with ")", sp is updated to be the
+ * section between the braces, and true is returned. Otherwise sp is unmodified and false
+ * is returned.
+ */
+bool Func(const std::string& str, Span<const char>& sp);
+
+/** Extract the expression that sp begins with.
+ *
+ * This function will return the initial part of sp, up to (but not including) the first
+ * comma or closing brace, skipping ones that are surrounded by braces. So for example,
+ * for "foo(bar(1),2),3" the initial part "foo(bar(1),2)" will be returned. sp will be
+ * updated to skip the initial part that is returned.
+ */
+Span<const char> Expr(Span<const char>& sp);
+
+} // namespace script
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_SCRIPT_PARSING_H