JSON might work but then the inputs are not very human readable (as I may have large arrays assigned to some of the keys). I did investigate using JLD but looks like it stores file in HDF5 format, which is not human readable/editable.
On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 2:21:47 AM UTC-8, Eric Forgy wrote: > > Is JSON an option for you? That was my first thought. > > Have you seen https://github.com/JuliaLang/JLD.jl ? This is probably the > best solution. > > On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 6:11:38 PM UTC+8, Nitin Arora wrote: >> >> Found a workable solution using https://github.com/r2dbg/ConfParser.jl >> , but its ugly, with custom code each new variable I ass. >> >> A direct read on the text file, similar to NAMELIST feature in Fortran >> will be useful. Then we can just update the Dict and it will be able to >> read the updated input file seamlessly. >> >> thanks, >> Nitin >> >> On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 1:07:38 AM UTC-8, Nitin Arora wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am creating a text base user-input interface for an optimization >>> framework I am developing in Julia. I am relatively new to Julia and have >>> only previously programmed in Fortran (mostly) and in C. >>> >>> I am planning to read in/out my variables and their corresponding value >>> (which can by any type) as key/value pairs of a Dict. This is equivalent to >>> Fortran's NAMELIST feature (in a crude way). >>> >>> As an example, I can easily write out a Dict to a text file as below: >>> >>> writedlm("test.txt",dd,"=") >>> >>> where dd is a example Dict: >>> >>> dd = Dict([("A", 0), ("B", false),("C", [199,199,199]) ]) >>> >>> But when I try to do the inverse (read back the Dict) using the readdlm >>> command , I get the following error. >>> >>> >>> f = open("test.txt" >>> >>> readdlm(f,dd) >>> >>> ERROR: MethodError: `readdlm` has no method matching readdlm(::IOStream, >>> ::Dict{ASCIIString,Any}) >>> >>> >>> I know, I can use "Regex" but I wanted to see if there is a more >>> straight forward way of doing this. >>> >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Nitin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
