1/ 📝 In this thread and blog post, we dive into idiomatic code in Noir, focusing on data parsing today. 

https://www.vlayer.xyz/blog/idiomatic-noir-part-2-parsing-data

Let’s get started 🧵👇

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2/ 🔍 Parsing data from formats like Base64, RLP, JSON, and verifying against cryptographic primitives is a common routine. Key steps:

— Compute cryptographic primitives.
— Decode data to verify correctness. 

ZK projects do this daily.

3/ 🔄 In ZK circuits, encoding and decoding are interchangeable. Decoding is often preferred due to efficiency and cheaper computation. 

4/ 💡 "Fragment" stores references to the original string, offset, and length of the parsed input. We can generalize "Fragment" to support any array.

5/ 🔨 Typical flow:

—  Decode and slice data.
— Calculate cryptographic primitives.
— Convert and compare data.

6/ 🚀 Read more about parsing in Noir in the blog post by @zkMarek, and let us know your thoughts!

6/ 🚀 Read more about parsing in Noir in the blog post by @zkMarek, and let us know your thoughts!

https://www.vlayer.xyz/blog/idiomatic-noir-part-2-parsing-data