From f36faa32c46897a12852da9f382ab10979511d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dbandstra <dbandstra@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 17:34:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add skipBytes function to InStream

this reads N bytes, discarding their values
---
 std/io.zig | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/std/io.zig b/std/io.zig
index 1b1c56b69..5d73b4e7d 100644
--- a/std/io.zig
+++ b/std/io.zig
@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ pub fn InStream(comptime ReadError: type) type {
             try self.readNoEof(input_slice);
             return mem.readInt(input_slice, T, endian);
         }
+
+        pub fn skipBytes(self: *Self, num_bytes: usize) !void {
+            var i: usize = 0;
+            while (i < num_bytes) : (i += 1) {
+                _ = try self.readByte();
+            }
+        }
     };
 }