urbanjost / m_cli Goto Github PK

Hi @urbanjost,
I'm doing some work (fortran-lang/fpm-registry#11) on the fpm-registry in order to get fpm packages listed on the website.

As part of this I've been parsing fpm.toml files from each package in the registry and I've noticed that M_CLI uses an invalid TOML syntax. Though Haskell fpm doesn't complain about this, it is causing some issues when parsing the TOML in Python.

According to the spec, there must be a newline after each key/value pair.
I believe the minimal syntax you are looking for can be achieved with inline tables, see here (scroll up slightly).

If I get time later, I can put together a pull request.

suppose:

CHARACTER(len=20) , DIMENSION(10) :: afuncs=""

and we have:

cmd = commandline('--afuncs "myfunc1","myfunc2","myfunc3"')

which perfectly assigns default values to afuncs(1),afuncs(2) and afuncs(3). The rest remain empty.
However, the same syntax does not work when calling from command line:

./myprogram --afuncs "thisfunc","thatfunc","thisfunc2"

This puts all of "thisfunc,thatfunc,thisfunc2" in afuncs(1). The rest remain as the default values. I have tested other combinations and cannot come up with a syntax to correctly assign each string to one cell on the command line.