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+//
+// Copyright 2017 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// File: strip.h
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// This file contains various functions for stripping substrings from a std::string.
+#ifndef ABSL_STRINGS_STRIP_H_
+#define ABSL_STRINGS_STRIP_H_
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <string>
+
+#include "absl/base/macros.h"
+#include "absl/strings/ascii.h"
+#include "absl/strings/match.h"
+#include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+
+// ConsumePrefix()
+//
+// Strips the `expected` prefix from the start of the given std::string, returning
+// `true` if the strip operation succeeded or false otherwise.
+//
+// Example:
+//
+//   absl::string_view input("abc");
+//   EXPECT_TRUE(absl::ConsumePrefix(&input, "a"));
+//   EXPECT_EQ(input, "bc");
+inline bool ConsumePrefix(absl::string_view* str, absl::string_view expected) {
+  if (!absl::StartsWith(*str, expected)) return false;
+  str->remove_prefix(expected.size());
+  return true;
+}
+// ConsumeSuffix()
+//
+// Strips the `expected` suffix from the end of the given std::string, returning
+// `true` if the strip operation succeeded or false otherwise.
+//
+// Example:
+//
+//   absl::string_view input("abcdef");
+//   EXPECT_TRUE(absl::ConsumeSuffix(&input, "def"));
+//   EXPECT_EQ(input, "abc");
+inline bool ConsumeSuffix(absl::string_view* str, absl::string_view expected) {
+  if (!absl::EndsWith(*str, expected)) return false;
+  str->remove_suffix(expected.size());
+  return true;
+}
+
+// StripPrefix()
+//
+// Returns a view into the input std::string 'str' with the given 'prefix' removed,
+// but leaving the original std::string intact. If the prefix does not match at the
+// start of the std::string, returns the original std::string instead.
+inline absl::string_view StripPrefix(absl::string_view str,
+                                     absl::string_view prefix) {
+  if (absl::StartsWith(str, prefix)) str.remove_prefix(prefix.size());
+  return str;
+}
+
+// StripSuffix()
+//
+// Returns a view into the input std::string 'str' with the given 'suffix' removed,
+// but leaving the original std::string intact. If the suffix does not match at the
+// end of the std::string, returns the original std::string instead.
+inline absl::string_view StripSuffix(absl::string_view str,
+                                     absl::string_view suffix) {
+  if (absl::EndsWith(str, suffix)) str.remove_suffix(suffix.size());
+  return str;
+}
+
+}  // namespace absl
+
+#endif  // ABSL_STRINGS_STRIP_H_