std.conv.parse too finicky?

[monarch_dodra]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 17:02:48 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I was playing around with std.conv.parse's mechanism for 
> parsing associative arrays from strings (cf. 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html#parse). A handy feature 
> as it would allow user-friendly input formats that can be 
> transformed into a D-array. However, the parser is very finicky 
> and expects the string to be exactly as if it were a hard-coded 
> D-array:
>
> void main(string[] args) {
> 	auto asso = "[\"key1\":\"value1\", \"key2\":\"value2\"]";
> 	auto array = parse!(string[string], string)(asso);
> 	foreach (k, v; array) {
> 		writefln("%s : %s", k, v);
> 	}
> }

You could reduce burden by using raw strings:

auto asso = `["key1":"value1", "key2":"value2"]`;

> Or is there something I have overlooked?

What bearophile said.