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+#define NONSTD_IMPLEMENTATION
+#include "../nonstd.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+// Helper function to print a string view
+void print_sv(const char *label, stringv sv) {
+	printf("%s (len=%zu): \"", label, sv.length);
+	fwrite(sv.data, 1, sv.length, stdout);
+	printf("\"\n");
+}
+
+int main(void) {
+	// Example 1: Create string view from C string
+	const char *hello = "Hello, World!";
+	stringv sv1 = sv_from_cstr(hello);
+	print_sv("  sv1", sv1);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 2: Create view from pointer and length
+	const char *text = "Programming in C";
+	stringv sv2 = sv_from_parts(text, 11); // Only "Programming"
+	print_sv("  sv2", sv2);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 3: Slicing - extract substrings without copying
+	stringv original = sv_from_cstr("The quick brown fox");
+
+	stringv word1 = sv_slice(original, 0, 3);	// "The"
+	stringv word2 = sv_slice(original, 4, 9);	// "quick"
+	stringv word3 = sv_slice(original, 10, 15); // "brown"
+
+	print_sv("  Original", original);
+	print_sv("  Word 1", word1);
+	print_sv("  Word 2", word2);
+	print_sv("  Word 3", word3);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 4: Comparing string views
+	stringv str_a = sv_from_cstr("hello");
+	stringv str_b = sv_from_cstr("hello");
+	stringv str_c = sv_from_cstr("world");
+
+	printf("  str_a == str_b: %s\n", sv_equals(str_a, str_b) ? "true" : "false");
+	printf("  str_a == str_c: %s\n", sv_equals(str_a, str_c) ? "true" : "false");
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 5: Prefix and suffix checking
+	stringv filename = sv_from_cstr("document.txt");
+	stringv prefix = sv_from_cstr("doc");
+	stringv suffix = sv_from_cstr(".txt");
+	stringv wrong_suffix = sv_from_cstr(".pdf");
+
+	print_sv("  Filename", filename);
+	printf("  Starts with 'doc': %s\n", sv_starts_with(filename, prefix) ? "yes" : "no");
+	printf("  Ends with '.txt': %s\n", sv_ends_with(filename, suffix) ? "yes" : "no");
+	printf("  Ends with '.pdf': %s\n", sv_ends_with(filename, wrong_suffix) ? "yes" : "no");
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 6: Parsing a path (practical use case)
+	const char *path = "/home/user/documents/report.pdf";
+	stringv path_sv = sv_from_cstr(path);
+
+	// Find the last '/' to extract filename
+	size_t last_slash = 0;
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < path_sv.length; i++) {
+		if (path_sv.data[i] == '/') {
+			last_slash = i + 1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	stringv directory = sv_slice(path_sv, 0, last_slash);
+	stringv filename2 = sv_slice(path_sv, last_slash, path_sv.length);
+
+	print_sv("  Full path", path_sv);
+	print_sv("  Directory", directory);
+	print_sv("  Filename", filename2);
+	printf("\n");
+
+	// Example 7: Tokenizing without allocation
+	const char *sentence = "one two three four";
+	stringv sent_sv = sv_from_cstr(sentence);
+
+	size_t start = 0;
+	for (size_t i = 0; i <= sent_sv.length; i++) {
+		if (i == sent_sv.length || sent_sv.data[i] == ' ') {
+			if (i > start) {
+				stringv token = sv_slice(sent_sv, start, i);
+				print_sv("  Token", token);
+			}
+			start = i + 1;
+		}
+	}
+	printf("\n");
+
+	return 0;
+}