Scanner 0.1.1

Scanner

Tired of writing something like this?

var n = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
var input = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(int.Parse).ToArray();

Just replace it with:

var sc = new AsciiScanner(); // parses byte stream with UTF-8 or ASCII encoded text
var input = new int[sc.ReadInt32()];
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; ++i)
  input[i] = sc.ReadInt32();

OR

var sc = new TextScanner(); // parses UTF-16 text via StreamReader
var input = new int[sc.Read<int>()];
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; ++i)
  input[i] = sc.Read<int>();

And not forget to use StreamWriter.Write instead of Console.Write for output to avoid excessive flushing!

using var output = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput());

output.WriteLine(Process(line));

Embeddable version

An embeddable version in the form of a short and concise code snippet intended for use in programming contests.

class Scanner
{
  StreamReader input = new(Console.OpenStandardInput(), bufferSize: 16384);
  char[] buffer = new char[4096];

  public int ReadInt()
  {
    var length = PrepareToken();
    return int.Parse(buffer.AsSpan(0, length));
  }

  public long ReadLong()
  {
    var length = PrepareToken();
    return long.Parse(buffer.AsSpan(0, length));
  }

  public double ReadDouble()
  {
    var length = PrepareToken();
    return double.Parse(buffer.AsSpan(0, length), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
  }

  private int PrepareToken()
  {
    int length = 0;
    bool readStart = false;
    while (true)
    {
      int ch = input.Read();
      if (ch == -1)
        break;

      if (char.IsWhiteSpace((char)ch))
      {
        if (readStart) break;
        continue;
      }

      readStart = true;
      buffer[length++] = (char)ch;
    }

    return length;
  }
}