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-# peek-a-buf
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+# Peek-A-Buf
+
+Peek-A-Buf is a Go library for a buffered reader with side effect free peeking capability.
+
+At the moment, a buffered reader for runes is implemented meant for things like scanners.
+
+Why is this useful if `bufio.Reader` exists? Well, the Peek function is sadly not side effect
+free there:
+
+>  Calling Peek prevents a UnreadByte or UnreadRune call from succeeding until the next read
+> operation. 
+
+But this was something needed to fix a bug in the
+[SQLDumpSplitter3](https://philiplb.de/sqldumpsplitter3). So I created this little library
+basically wrapping `bufio.Reader` and re-implementing small parts of it.
+
+In addition to the side effect free peek function, it returns an `EOF` rune instead of an
+error if it reaches the end of the buffer.
+
+Have a look at the **[documentation](https://godoc.org/github.com/philiplb/peekabuf)**.
+
+## Installation
+
+Just `go get` it:
+
+```bash
+go get github.com/philiplb/peekabuf
+```
+
+## License
+[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)