start implimenting a parser

src/string/string.c

@@ -3,65 +3,6 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
-#include <stddef.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <cjson/cJSON.h>
-
-char *swap_quotes(const char *input) {
-    size_t len = strlen(input);
-    char *result = malloc(len + 1);
-    if (!result) return NULL;
-
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
-        if (input[i] == '"') result[i] = '\'';
-        else if (input[i] == '\'') result[i] = '"';
-        else result[i] = input[i];
-    }
-    result[len] = '\0';
-    return result;
-}
-
-char *unquote(const char *str) {
-    if (*str == '\0') return NULL;
-
-    char quote = str[0];
-    char *swapped = NULL;
-    char *unescaped = NULL;
-
-    if (quote == '\'') {
-        swapped = swap_quotes(str);
-        if (!swapped) return NULL;
-        str = swapped;
-    }
-
-    cJSON *json = cJSON_Parse(str);
-    if (!json || !cJSON_IsString(json)) {
-        if (swapped) free(swapped);
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
-    // Copy unescaped string before freeing JSON object
-    const char *decoded = cJSON_GetStringValue(json);
-    if (!decoded) {
-        cJSON_Delete(json);
-        if (swapped) free(swapped);
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
-    unescaped = strdup(decoded);
-    cJSON_Delete(json);
-    if (swapped) free(swapped);
-
-    // If input was single-quoted, swap quotes back in the output
-    if (quote == '\'') {
-        char *final = swap_quotes(unescaped);
-        free(unescaped);
-        return final;
-    }
-
-    return unescaped;
-}
 
 const char *WHITE_SPACE = " \t\n\r\f\v";
 

src/string/string.h

@@ -7,9 +7,5 @@ char* cloneString(char* str);
 
 void stripString(char* str, const char* chars);
 
-char *swap_quotes(const char *input);
-
-char *unquote(const char *str);
-
 
 #endif // CLONESTRING_H