Parse content from a string, not a file

[O-Tom]

Hello,

I wanted to use ini-cpp to write unit tests on excerpts from .ini files that are directly embedded in the code as std::string_view (or std::string).
However, the only two constructors require a path or a file descriptor. None accept a .ini fragment.
Looking at the implementation of ini.h, I see that the Parse method might meet this need, but it is declared private.

Is it possible to modify the existing constructors or change the visibility of the Parse method to expand the capabilities and accommodate my use case ?
I could work around this by generating temporary files in my tests and using the current implementation, but that seems clunky to me.

[SSARCandy]

Thanks for the suggestion, this is a reasonable use case and it's now supported on master (8017ef1).

Rather than exposing Parse or adding a std::string_view constructor (which would make INIReader{"config.ini"} ambiguous against the existing const std::string& constructor), there is a new static factory:

#include "ini/ini.h"

const auto r = inih::INIReader::FromString(
    "[section1]\n"
    "any = 5\n"
    "[section2]\n"
    "any_vec = 1 2 3\n");

r.Get<int>("section1", "any");              // 5
r.GetVector<float>("section2", "any_vec");  // {1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f}

[O-Tom]

Excellent !
I was about to ask for an update on the vcpkg port, but you've already done it !
Thanks