How do I use CTFE to generate an immutable associative array at compile time?

[Chad Joan via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 22:26:01 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 21:58:07 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 21:53:23 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make this work:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> You cannot create AA's at ctfe and carry them over to runtime 
>> use.
>> You'd have to use a costum dictionary-type.
>> I think the vibe.d project has one you could use.
>
> I wondered if this might be the case.
>
> Well, I won't worry about it then.  I'll have to find another 
> way around.
>
> Thanks a bunch!

For the sake of the rest of the internet, here is what I'm 
probably going to stick with:

---
pure string[string] parseTwoColumnCsv(string inputCsv)
{
	import std.csv;
	import std.typecons;
	
	string[string] result;
	
	foreach ( record; csvReader!(Tuple!(string,string))(inputCsv) )
		result[record[0]] = record[1];
	
	return result;
}

immutable string[string] dataLookup;

static this()
{
	dataLookup = parseTwoColumnCsv(import("some_data.csv"));
}

void main()
{
	import std.stdio;
	writefln("dataLookup = %s", dataLookup);
}
---

In this case the AA isn't actually coded into the executable; but 
at least the configuration from some_data.csv will be in the 
executable as a string.  The program will construct the AA at 
startup.  It's not as "cool", but it should get the job done.

HTH.