Parse Char?

[MaximilianJHuber]

When I loadtable using JuliaDB and I tell the colparsers that a certain column is a Char , I get an error:

MethodError: no method matching fromtype(::Type{Char})

Can't TextParse parse characters? Or is it JuliaDB's fault?

[shashi]

It's TextParse! Just need to add a parser for Char.

[MaximilianJHuber]

Alright, I wrote a custom parser:

c_parse = CustomParser(Char) do str, i, len, opts
    return (Nullable(str[i]), i+2)
end

It works:
TextParse.tryparsenext(c_parse, "abcd;a;123.23;", 6, 1, nothing) gives:
Nullable{Char}('A')

But while the parse is of type Char, the column in my table has type TextParse.StrRange! Is this an issue for JuliaDB?

[MaximilianJHuber]

This works:

char_parser = CustomParser(Char) do str, i, len, opts
    return (Nullable{Char}(str[i]), i + 1)
end
```