String7 and Bools : bug or feature?

General Usage
1

This one got me (by reading in a DataFrame via CSV).

Is this behavior intentional?


julia> using CSV

julia> x = String7( "4" )
"4"

julia> parse( Int, x )
4

julia> y = String7( "true" )
"true"

julia> parse( Bool, y )
ERROR: InexactError: Bool(10)
Stacktrace:
 [1] Bool
   @ ./float.jl:158 [inlined]
 [2] convert
   @ ./number.jl:7 [inlined]
 [3] tryparse_internal(#unused#::Type{Bool}, s::String7, startpos::Int64, endpos::Int64, base_::Int64, raise::Bool)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:126
 [4] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::String7; base::Nothing)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:241
 [5] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::String7)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:240
 [6] top-level scope
   @ REPL[5]:1

julia> z = String( y )
"true"

julia> parse( Bool, z )
true
2

String7 belongs to the InlineStrings package. I guess this is an InlineStrings bug, however, it’s fixed in the latest version, v1.4.0, of InlineStrings.

What’s your version of InlineStrings? Try updating and see if it fixes the bug.

3

It doesn’t appear to be fixed in v1.4.0.

4

I can confirm the error for InlineStrings 1.4.0. Incidentally, my related package StaticStrings.jl also has the same issue.

julia> parse(Bool, inline"true")
ERROR: InexactError: Bool(10)
Stacktrace:
 [1] Bool
   @ ./float.jl:171 [inlined]
 [2] convert
   @ ./number.jl:7 [inlined]
 [3] tryparse_internal(#unused#::Type{Bool}, s::String7, startpos::Int64, endpos::Int64, base_::Int64, raise::Bool)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:126
 [4] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::String7; base::Nothing)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:241
 [5] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::String7)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:240
 [6] top-level scope
   @ REPL[33]:1

julia> parse(Bool, inline"true"; base=2)
ERROR: InexactError: Bool(2)
Stacktrace:
 [1] Bool
   @ ./float.jl:171 [inlined]
 [2] convert
   @ ./number.jl:7 [inlined]
 [3] tryparse_internal(#unused#::Type{Bool}, s::String7, startpos::Int64, endpos::Int64, base_::Int64, raise::Bool)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:126
 [4] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::String7; base::Int64)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:241
 [5] top-level scope
   @ REPL[34]:1

julia> using StaticStrings

julia> parse(Bool, static"true"; base=2)
ERROR: InexactError: Bool(2)
Stacktrace:
 [1] Bool
   @ ./float.jl:171 [inlined]
 [2] convert
   @ ./number.jl:7 [inlined]
 [3] tryparse_internal(#unused#::Type{Bool}, s::StaticString{4}, startpos::Int64, endpos::Int64, base_::Int64, raise::Bool)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:126
 [4] parse(::Type{Bool}, s::StaticString{4}; base::Int64)
   @ Base ./parse.jl:241
 [5] top-level scope
   @ ~/.julia/packages/StaticStrings/oSXOl/src/macros.jl:19

The problem appears to be related to the base.

5

Meta.parse seems to work just fine though.

julia> Meta.parse(static"true")
true

julia> Meta.parse(inline"true")
true
6

Sorry, this was a Julia Base bug, it has been fixed seven months ago, but I guess the fix wasn’t backported to any releases:

parse certainly works for me on nightly Julia.

7

This should be fixed in 1.6.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.3, and 1.10.0 (none of which have been released atm)

[Edit: corrected]

8

Actually, v1.9.2 was released two days ago. I think you mean v1.9.3, because v1.9.2 still seems to be buggy.