Re: std.conv.parse too finicky?

[monarch_dodra]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 17:02:48 UTC, Chris wrote:

I was playing around with std.conv.parse's mechanism for parsing associative arrays from strings (cf. http://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#parse). A handy feature as it would allow user-friendly input formats that can be transformed into a D-array. However, the parser is very finicky and expects the string to be exactly as if it were a hard-coded D-array:

void main(string[] args) {
        auto asso = "[\"key1\":\"value1\", \"key2\":\"value2\"]";
        auto array = parse!(string[string], string)(asso);
        foreach (k, v; array) {
                writefln("%s : %s", k, v);
        }
}

You could reduce burden by using raw strings:

auto asso = `["key1":"value1", "key2":"value2"]`;

Or is there something I have overlooked?

What bearophile said.