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+toml11
+======
+
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+
+toml11 is a C++11 (or later) header-only toml parser/encoder depending only on C++ standard library.
+
+- It is compatible to the latest version of [TOML v1.0.0](https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0).
+- It is one of the most TOML standard compliant libraries, tested with [the language agnostic test suite for TOML parsers by BurntSushi](https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml-test).
+- It shows highly informative error messages. You can see the error messages about invalid files at [CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/ToruNiina/toml11).
+- It has configurable container. You can use any random-access containers and key-value maps as backend containers.
+- It optionally preserves comments without any overhead.
+- It has configurable serializer that supports comments, inline tables, literal strings and multiline strings.
+- It supports user-defined type conversion from/into toml values.
+- It correctly handles UTF-8 sequences, with or without BOM, both on posix and Windows.
+
+## Example
+
+```cpp
+#include <toml.hpp>
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main()
+{
+ // ```toml
+ // title = "an example toml file"
+ // nums = [3, 1, 4, 1, 5]
+ // ```
+ auto data = toml::parse("example.toml");
+
+ // find a value with the specified type from a table
+ std::string title = toml::find<std::string>(data, "title");
+
+ // convert the whole array into any container automatically
+ std::vector<int> nums = toml::find<std::vector<int>>(data, "nums");
+
+ // access with STL-like manner
+ if(!data.contains("foo"))
+ {
+ data["foo"] = "bar";
+ }
+
+ // pass a fallback
+ std::string name = toml::find_or<std::string>(data, "name", "not found");
+
+ // width-dependent formatting
+ std::cout << std::setw(80) << data << std::endl;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+```
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Integration](#integration)
+- [Decoding a toml file](#decoding-a-toml-file)
+ - [In the case of syntax error](#in-the-case-of-syntax-error)
+ - [Invalid UTF-8 Codepoints](#invalid-utf-8-codepoints)
+- [Finding a toml value](#finding-a-toml-value)
+ - [Finding a value in a table](#finding-a-value-in-a-table)
+ - [In case of error](#in-case-of-error)
+ - [Dotted keys](#dotted-keys)
+- [Casting a toml value](#casting-a-toml-value)
+- [Checking value type](#checking-value-type)
+- [More about conversion](#more-about-conversion)
+ - [Converting an array](#converting-an-array)
+ - [Converting a table](#converting-a-table)
+ - [Getting an array of tables](#getting-an-array-of-tables)
+ - [Cost of conversion](#cost-of-conversion)
+ - [Converting datetime and its variants](#converting-datetime-and-its-variants)
+- [Getting with a fallback](#getting-with-a-fallback)
+- [Expecting conversion](#expecting-conversion)
+- [Visiting a toml::value](#visiting-a-tomlvalue)
+- [Constructing a toml::value](#constructing-a-tomlvalue)
+- [Preserving Comments](#preserving-comments)
+- [Customizing containers](#customizing-containers)
+- [TOML literal](#toml-literal)
+- [Conversion between toml value and arbitrary types](#conversion-between-toml-value-and-arbitrary-types)
+- [Formatting user-defined error messages](#formatting-user-defined-error-messages)
+- [Obtaining location information](#obtaining-location-information)
+- [Exceptions](#exceptions)
+- [Colorize Error Messages](#colorize-error-messages)
+- [Serializing TOML data](#serializing-toml-data)
+- [Underlying types](#underlying-types)
+- [Unreleased TOML features](#unreleased-toml-features)
+- [Breaking Changes from v2](#breaking-changes-from-v2)
+- [Running Tests](#running-tests)
+- [Contributors](#contributors)
+- [Licensing Terms](#licensing-terms)
+
+## Integration
+
+Just include the file after adding it to the include path.
+
+```cpp
+#include <toml.hpp> // that's all! now you can use it.
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main()
+{
+ const auto data = toml::parse("example.toml");
+ const auto title = toml::find<std::string>(data, "title");
+ std::cout << "the title is " << title << std::endl;
+ return 0;
+}
+```
+
+The convenient way is to add this repository as a git-submodule or to install
+it in your system by CMake.
+
+Note for MSVC: We recommend to set `/Zc:__cplusplus` to detect C++ version correctly.
+
+## Decoding a toml file
+
+To parse a toml file, the only thing you have to do is
+to pass a filename to the `toml::parse` function.
+
+```cpp
+const std::string fname("sample.toml");
+const toml::value data = toml::parse(fname);
+```
+
+As required by the TOML specification, the top-level value is always a table.
+You can find a value inside it, cast it into a table explicitly, and insert it as a value into other `toml::value`.
+
+If it encounters an error while opening a file, it will throw `std::runtime_error`.
+
+You can also pass a `std::istream` to the `toml::parse` function.
+To show a filename in an error message, however, it is recommended to pass the
+filename with the stream.
+
+```cpp
+std::ifstream ifs("sample.toml", std::ios_base::binary);
+assert(ifs.good());
+const auto data = toml::parse(ifs, /*optional -> */ "sample.toml");
+```
+
+**Note**: When you are **on Windows, open a file in binary mode**.
+If a file is opened in text-mode, CRLF ("\r\n") will automatically be
+converted to LF ("\n") and this causes inconsistency between file size
+and the contents that would be read. This causes weird error.
+
+### In the case of syntax error
+
+If there is a syntax error in a toml file, `toml::parse` will throw
+`toml::syntax_error` that inherits `std::exception`.
+
+toml11 has clean and informative error messages inspired by Rust and
+it looks like the following.
+
+```console
+terminate called after throwing an instance of 'toml::syntax_error'
+ what(): [error] toml::parse_table: invalid line format # error description
+ --> example.toml # file name
+ 3 | a = 42 = true # line num and content
+ | ^------ expected newline, but got '='. # error reason
+```
+
+If you (mistakenly) duplicate tables and got an error, it is helpful to see
+where they are. toml11 shows both at the same time like the following.
+
+```console
+terminate called after throwing an instance of 'toml::syntax_error'
+ what(): [error] toml::insert_value: table ("table") already exists.
+ --> duplicate-table.toml
+ 1 | [table]
+ | ~~~~~~~ table already exists here
+ ...
+ 3 | [table]
+ | ~~~~~~~ table defined twice
+```
+
+When toml11 encounters a malformed value, it tries to detect what type it is.
+Then it shows hints to fix the format. An error message while reading one of
+the malformed files in [the language agnostic test suite](https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml-test).
+is shown below.
+
+```console
+what(): [error] bad time: should be HH:MM:SS.subsec
+ --> ./datetime-malformed-no-secs.toml
+ 1 | no-secs = 1987-07-05T17:45Z
+ | ^------- HH:MM:SS.subsec
+ |
+Hint: pass: 1979-05-27T07:32:00, 1979-05-27 07:32:00.999999
+Hint: fail: 1979-05-27T7:32:00, 1979-05-27 17:32
+```
+
+You can find other examples in a job named `output_result` on
+[CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/ToruNiina/toml11).
+
+Since the error message generation is generally a difficult task, the current
+status is not ideal. If you encounter a weird error message, please let us know
+and contribute to improve the quality!
+
+### Invalid UTF-8 codepoints
+
+It throws `syntax_error` if a value of an escape sequence
+representing unicode character is not a valid UTF-8 codepoint.
+
+```console
+ what(): [error] toml::read_utf8_codepoint: input codepoint is too large.
+ --> utf8.toml
+ 1 | exceeds_unicode = "\U0011FFFF example"
+ | ^--------- should be in [0x00..0x10FFFF]
+```
+
+## Finding a toml value
+
+After parsing successfully, you can obtain the values from the result of
+`toml::parse` using `toml::find` function.
+
+```toml
+# sample.toml
+answer = 42
+pi = 3.14
+numbers = [1,2,3]
+time = 1979-05-27T07:32:00Z
+```
+
+``` cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const auto answer = toml::find<std::int64_t >(data, "answer");
+const auto pi = toml::find<double >(data, "pi");
+const auto numbers = toml::find<std::vector<int>>(data, "numbers");
+const auto timepoint = toml::find<std::chrono::system_clock::time_point>(data, "time");
+```
+
+By default, `toml::find` returns a `toml::value`.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value& answer = toml::find(data, "answer");
+```
+
+When you pass an exact TOML type that does not require type conversion,
+`toml::find` returns a reference without copying the value.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const auto& answer = toml::find<toml::integer>(data, "answer");
+```
+
+If the specified type requires conversion, you can't take a reference to the value.
+See also [underlying types](#underlying-types).
+
+**NOTE**: For some technical reason, automatic conversion between `integer` and
+`floating` is not supported. If you want to get a floating value even if a value
+has integer value, you need to convert it manually after obtaining a value,
+like the following.
+
+```cpp
+const auto vx = toml::find(data, "x");
+double x = vx.is_floating() ? vx.as_floating(std::nothrow) :
+ static_cast<double>(vx.as_integer()); // it throws if vx is neither
+ // floating nor integer.
+```
+
+### Finding a value in a table
+
+There are several way to get a value defined in a table.
+First, you can get a table as a normal value and find a value from the table.
+
+```toml
+[fruit]
+name = "apple"
+[fruit.physical]
+color = "red"
+shape = "round"
+```
+
+``` cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("fruit.toml");
+const auto& fruit = toml::find(data, "fruit");
+const auto name = toml::find<std::string>(fruit, "name");
+
+const auto& physical = toml::find(fruit, "physical");
+const auto color = toml::find<std::string>(physical, "color");
+const auto shape = toml::find<std::string>(physical, "shape");
+```
+
+Here, variable `fruit` is a `toml::value` and can be used as the first argument
+of `toml::find`.
+
+Second, you can pass as many arguments as the number of subtables to `toml::find`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("fruit.toml");
+const auto color = toml::find<std::string>(data, "fruit", "physical", "color");
+const auto shape = toml::find<std::string>(data, "fruit", "physical", "shape");
+```
+
+### Finding a value in an array
+
+You can find n-th value in an array by `toml::find`.
+
+```toml
+values = ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
+```
+
+``` cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const auto values = toml::find(data, "values");
+const auto bar = toml::find<std::string>(values, 1);
+```
+
+`toml::find` can also search array recursively.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("fruit.toml");
+const auto bar = toml::find<std::string>(data, "values", 1);
+```
+
+Before calling `toml::find`, you can check if a value corresponding to a key
+exists. You can use both `bool toml::value::contains(const key&) const` and
+`std::size_t toml::value::count(const key&) const`. Those behaves like the
+`std::map::contains` and `std::map::count`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("fruit.toml");
+if(data.contains("fruit") && data.at("fruit").count("physical") != 0)
+{
+ // ...
+}
+```
+
+### In case of error
+
+If the value does not exist, `toml::find` throws `std::out_of_range` with the
+location of the table.
+
+```console
+terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
+ what(): [error] key "answer" not found
+ --> example.toml
+ 6 | [tab]
+ | ~~~~~ in this table
+```
+
+----
+
+If the specified type differs from the actual value contained, it throws
+`toml::type_error` that inherits `std::exception`.
+
+Similar to the case of syntax error, toml11 also displays clean error messages.
+The error message when you choose `int` to get `string` value would be like this.
+
+```console
+terminate called after throwing an instance of 'toml::type_error'
+ what(): [error] toml::value bad_cast to integer
+ --> example.toml
+ 3 | title = "TOML Example"
+ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the actual type is string
+```
+
+**NOTE**: In order to show this kind of error message, all the toml values have
+a pointer to represent its range in a file. The entire contents of a file is
+shared by `toml::value`s and remains on the heap memory. It is recommended to
+destruct all the `toml::value` classes after configuring your application
+if you have a large TOML file compared to the memory resource.
+
+### Dotted keys
+
+TOML v0.5.0 has a new feature named "dotted keys".
+You can chain keys to represent the structure of the data.
+
+```toml
+physical.color = "orange"
+physical.shape = "round"
+```
+
+This is equivalent to the following.
+
+```toml
+[physical]
+color = "orange"
+shape = "round"
+```
+
+You can get both of the above tables with the same c++ code.
+
+```cpp
+const auto physical = toml::find(data, "physical");
+const auto color = toml::find<std::string>(physical, "color");
+```
+
+The following code does not work for the above toml file.
+
+```cpp
+// XXX this does not work!
+const auto color = toml::find<std::string>(data, "physical.color");
+```
+
+The above code works with the following toml file.
+
+```toml
+"physical.color" = "orange"
+# equivalent to {"physical.color": "orange"},
+# NOT {"physical": {"color": "orange"}}.
+```
+
+
+## Casting a toml value
+
+### `toml::get`
+
+`toml::parse` returns `toml::value`. `toml::value` is a union type that can
+contain one of the following types.
+
+- `toml::boolean` (`bool`)
+- `toml::integer` (`std::int64_t`)
+- `toml::floating` (`double`)
+- `toml::string` (a type convertible to std::string)
+- `toml::local_date`
+- `toml::local_time`
+- `toml::local_datetime`
+- `toml::offset_datetime`
+- `toml::array` (by default, `std::vector<toml::value>`)
+ - It depends. See [customizing containers](#customizing-containers) for detail.
+- `toml::table` (by default, `std::unordered_map<toml::key, toml::value>`)
+ - It depends. See [customizing containers](#customizing-containers) for detail.
+
+To get a value inside, you can use `toml::get<T>()`. The usage is the same as
+`toml::find<T>` (actually, `toml::find` internally uses `toml::get` after casting
+a value to `toml::table`).
+
+``` cpp
+const toml::value data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const toml::value answer_ = toml::get<toml::table >(data).at("answer");
+const std::int64_t answer = toml::get<std::int64_t>(answer_);
+```
+
+When you pass an exact TOML type that does not require type conversion,
+`toml::get` returns a reference through which you can modify the content
+(if the `toml::value` is `const`, it returns `const` reference).
+
+```cpp
+toml::value data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+toml::value answer_ = toml::get<toml::table >(data).at("answer");
+toml::integer& answer = toml::get<toml::integer>(answer_);
+answer = 6 * 9; // write to data.answer. now `answer_` contains 54.
+```
+
+If the specified type requires conversion, you can't take a reference to the value.
+See also [underlying types](#underlying-types).
+
+It also throws a `toml::type_error` if the type differs.
+
+### `as_xxx`
+
+You can also use a member function to cast a value.
+
+```cpp
+const std::int64_t answer = data.as_table().at("answer").as_integer();
+```
+
+It also throws a `toml::type_error` if the type differs. If you are sure that
+the value `v` contains a value of the specified type, you can suppress checking
+by passing `std::nothrow`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto& answer = data.as_table().at("answer");
+if(answer.is_integer() && answer.as_integer(std::nothrow) == 42)
+{
+ std::cout << "value is 42" << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+If `std::nothrow` is passed, the functions are marked as noexcept.
+
+By casting a `toml::value` into an array or a table, you can iterate over the
+elements.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("example.toml");
+std::cout << "keys in the top-level table are the following: \n";
+for(const auto& [k, v] : data.as_table())
+{
+ std::cout << k << '\n';
+}
+
+const auto& fruits = toml::find(data, "fruits");
+for(const auto& v : fruits.as_array())
+{
+ std::cout << toml::find<std::string>(v, "name") << '\n';
+}
+```
+
+The full list of the functions is below.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml {
+class value {
+ // ...
+ const boolean& as_boolean() const&;
+ const integer& as_integer() const&;
+ const floating& as_floating() const&;
+ const string& as_string() const&;
+ const offset_datetime& as_offset_datetime() const&;
+ const local_datetime& as_local_datetime() const&;
+ const local_date& as_local_date() const&;
+ const local_time& as_local_time() const&;
+ const array& as_array() const&;
+ const table& as_table() const&;
+ // --------------------------------------------------------
+ // non-const version
+ boolean& as_boolean() &;
+ // ditto...
+ // --------------------------------------------------------
+ // rvalue version
+ boolean&& as_boolean() &&;
+ // ditto...
+
+ // --------------------------------------------------------
+ // noexcept versions ...
+ const boolean& as_boolean(const std::nothrow_t&) const& noexcept;
+ boolean& as_boolean(const std::nothrow_t&) & noexcept;
+ boolean&& as_boolean(const std::nothrow_t&) && noexcept;
+ // ditto...
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+### `at()`
+
+You can access to the element of a table and an array by `toml::basic_value::at`.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v{1,2,3,4,5};
+std::cout << v.at(2).as_integer() << std::endl; // 3
+
+const toml::value v{{"foo", 42}, {"bar", 3.14}};
+std::cout << v.at("foo").as_integer() << std::endl; // 42
+```
+
+If an invalid key (integer for a table, string for an array), it throws
+`toml::type_error` for the conversion. If the provided key is out-of-range,
+it throws `std::out_of_range`.
+
+Note that, although `std::string` has `at()` member function, `toml::value::at`
+throws if the contained type is a string. Because `std::string` does not
+contain `toml::value`.
+
+### `operator[]`
+
+You can also access to the element of a table and an array by
+`toml::basic_value::operator[]`.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v{1,2,3,4,5};
+std::cout << v[2].as_integer() << std::endl; // 3
+
+const toml::value v{{"foo", 42}, {"bar", 3.14}};
+std::cout << v["foo"].as_integer() << std::endl; // 42
+```
+
+When you access to a `toml::value` that is not initialized yet via
+`operator[](const std::string&)`, the `toml::value` will be a table,
+just like the `std::map`.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v; // not initialized as a table.
+v["foo"] = 42; // OK. `v` will be a table.
+```
+
+Contrary, if you access to a `toml::value` that contains an array via `operator[]`,
+it does not check anything. It converts `toml::value` without type check and then
+access to the n-th element without boundary check, just like the `std::vector::operator[]`.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v; // not initialized as an array
+v[2] = 42; // error! UB
+```
+
+Please make sure that the `toml::value` has an array inside when you access to
+its element via `operator[]`.
+
+## Checking value type
+
+You can check the type of a value by `is_xxx` function.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v = /* ... */;
+if(v.is_integer())
+{
+ std::cout << "value is an integer" << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+The complete list of the functions is below.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml {
+class value {
+ // ...
+ bool is_boolean() const noexcept;
+ bool is_integer() const noexcept;
+ bool is_floating() const noexcept;
+ bool is_string() const noexcept;
+ bool is_offset_datetime() const noexcept;
+ bool is_local_datetime() const noexcept;
+ bool is_local_date() const noexcept;
+ bool is_local_time() const noexcept;
+ bool is_array() const noexcept;
+ bool is_table() const noexcept;
+ bool is_uninitialized() const noexcept;
+ // ...
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+Also, you can get `enum class value_t` from `toml::value::type()`.
+
+```cpp
+switch(data.at("something").type())
+{
+ case toml::value_t::integer: /*do some stuff*/ ; break;
+ case toml::value_t::floating: /*do some stuff*/ ; break;
+ case toml::value_t::string : /*do some stuff*/ ; break;
+ default : throw std::runtime_error(
+ "unexpected type : " + toml::stringize(data.at("something").type()));
+}
+```
+
+The complete list of the `enum`s can be found in the section
+[underlying types](#underlying-types).
+
+The `enum`s can be used as a parameter of `toml::value::is` function like the following.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v = /* ... */;
+if(v.is(toml::value_t::boolean)) // ...
+```
+
+## More about conversion
+
+Since `toml::find` internally uses `toml::get`, all the following examples work
+with both `toml::get` and `toml::find`.
+
+### Converting an array
+
+You can get any kind of `container` class from a `toml::array`
+except for `map`-like classes.
+
+``` cpp
+// # sample.toml
+// numbers = [1,2,3]
+
+const auto numbers = toml::find(data, "numbers");
+
+const auto vc = toml::get<std::vector<int> >(numbers);
+const auto ls = toml::get<std::list<int> >(numbers);
+const auto dq = toml::get<std::deque<int> >(numbers);
+const auto ar = toml::get<std::array<int, 3>>(numbers);
+// if the size of data.at("numbers") is larger than that of std::array,
+// it will throw toml::type_error because std::array is not resizable.
+```
+
+Surprisingly, you can convert `toml::array` into `std::pair` and `std::tuple`.
+
+```cpp
+// numbers = [1,2,3]
+const auto tp = toml::get<std::tuple<short, int, unsigned int>>(numbers);
+```
+
+This functionality is helpful when you have a toml file like the following.
+
+```toml
+array_of_arrays = [[1, 2, 3], ["foo", "bar", "baz"]] # toml allows this
+```
+
+What is the corresponding C++ type?
+Obviously, it is a `std::pair` of `std::vector`s.
+
+```cpp
+const auto array_of_arrays = toml::find(data, "array_of_arrays");
+const auto aofa = toml::get<
+ std::pair<std::vector<int>, std::vector<std::string>>
+ >(array_of_arrays);
+```
+
+If you don't know the type of the elements, you can use `toml::array`,
+which is a `std::vector` of `toml::value`, instead.
+
+```cpp
+const auto a_of_a = toml::get<toml::array>(array_of_arrays);
+const auto first = toml::get<std::vector<int>>(a_of_a.at(0));
+```
+
+You can change the implementation of `toml::array` with `std::deque` or some
+other array-like container. See [Customizing containers](#customizing-containers)
+for detail.
+
+### Converting a table
+
+When all the values of the table have the same type, toml11 allows you to
+convert a `toml::table` to a `map` that contains the convertible type.
+
+```toml
+[tab]
+key1 = "foo" # all the values are
+key2 = "bar" # toml String
+```
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const auto tab = toml::find<std::map<std::string, std::string>>(data, "tab");
+std::cout << tab["key1"] << std::endl; // foo
+std::cout << tab["key2"] << std::endl; // bar
+```
+
+But since `toml::table` is just an alias of `std::unordered_map<toml::key, toml::value>`,
+normally you don't need to convert it because it has all the functionalities that
+`std::unordered_map` has (e.g. `operator[]`, `count`, and `find`). In most cases
+`toml::table` is sufficient.
+
+```cpp
+toml::table tab = toml::get<toml::table>(data);
+if(data.count("title") != 0)
+{
+ data["title"] = std::string("TOML example");
+}
+```
+
+You can change the implementation of `toml::table` with `std::map` or some
+other map-like container. See [Customizing containers](#customizing-containers)
+for detail.
+
+### Getting an array of tables
+
+An array of tables is just an array of tables.
+You can get it in completely the same way as the other arrays and tables.
+
+```toml
+# sample.toml
+array_of_inline_tables = [{key = "value1"}, {key = "value2"}, {key = "value3"}]
+
+[[array_of_tables]]
+key = "value4"
+[[array_of_tables]]
+key = "value5"
+[[array_of_tables]]
+key = "value6"
+```
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+const auto aot1 = toml::find<std::vector<toml::table>>(data, "array_of_inline_tables");
+const auto aot2 = toml::find<std::vector<toml::table>>(data, "array_of_tables");
+```
+
+### Cost of conversion
+
+Although conversion through `toml::(get|find)` is convenient, it has additional
+copy-cost because it copies data contained in `toml::value` to the
+user-specified type. Of course in some cases this overhead is not ignorable.
+
+```cpp
+// the following code constructs a std::vector.
+// it requires heap allocation for vector and element conversion.
+const auto array = toml::find<std::vector<int>>(data, "foo");
+```
+
+By passing the exact types, `toml::get` returns reference that has no overhead.
+
+``` cpp
+const auto& tab = toml::find<toml::table>(data, "tab");
+const auto& numbers = toml::find<toml::array>(data, "numbers");
+```
+
+Also, `as_xxx` are zero-overhead because they always return a reference.
+
+``` cpp
+const auto& tab = toml::find(data, "tab" ).as_table();
+const auto& numbers = toml::find(data, "numbers").as_array();
+```
+
+In this case you need to call `toml::get` each time you access to
+the element of `toml::array` because `toml::array` is an array of `toml::value`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto& num0 = toml::get<toml::integer>(numbers.at(0));
+const auto& num1 = toml::get<toml::integer>(numbers.at(1));
+const auto& num2 = toml::get<toml::integer>(numbers.at(2));
+```
+
+### Converting datetime and its variants
+
+TOML v0.5.0 has 4 different datetime objects, `local_date`, `local_time`,
+`local_datetime`, and `offset_datetime`.
+
+Since `local_date`, `local_datetime`, and `offset_datetime` represent a time
+point, you can convert them to `std::chrono::system_clock::time_point`.
+
+Contrary, `local_time` does not represents a time point because they lack a
+date information, but it can be converted to `std::chrono::duration` that
+represents a duration from the beginning of the day, `00:00:00.000`.
+
+```toml
+# sample.toml
+date = 2018-12-23
+time = 12:30:00
+l_dt = 2018-12-23T12:30:00
+o_dt = 2018-12-23T12:30:00+09:30
+```
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("sample.toml");
+
+const auto date = toml::get<std::chrono::system_clock::time_point>(data.at("date"));
+const auto l_dt = toml::get<std::chrono::system_clock::time_point>(data.at("l_dt"));
+const auto o_dt = toml::get<std::chrono::system_clock::time_point>(data.at("o_dt"));
+
+const auto time = toml::get<std::chrono::minutes>(data.at("time")); // 12 * 60 + 30 min
+```
+
+`local_date` and `local_datetime` are assumed to be in the local timezone when
+they are converted into `time_point`. On the other hand, `offset_datetime` only
+uses the offset part of the data and it does not take local timezone into account.
+
+To contain datetime data, toml11 defines its own datetime types.
+For more detail, you can see the definitions in [toml/datetime.hpp](toml/datetime.hpp).
+
+## Getting with a fallback
+
+`toml::find_or` returns a default value if the value is not found or has a
+different type.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse("example.toml");
+const auto num = toml::find_or(data, "num", 42);
+```
+
+It works recursively if you pass several keys for subtables.
+In that case, the last argument is considered to be the optional value.
+All other arguments between `toml::value` and the optinoal value are considered as keys.
+
+```cpp
+// [fruit.physical]
+// color = "red"
+auto data = toml::parse("fruit.toml");
+auto color = toml::find_or(data, "fruit", "physical", "color", "red");
+// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^
+// arguments optional value
+```
+
+Also, `toml::get_or` returns a default value if `toml::get<T>` failed.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v("foo"); // v contains String
+const int value = toml::get_or(v, 42); // conversion fails. it returns 42.
+```
+
+These functions automatically deduce what type you want to get
+from the default value you passed.
+
+To get a reference through this function, take care about the default value.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v("foo"); // v contains String
+toml::integer& i = toml::get_or(v, 42); // does not work because binding `42`
+ // to `integer&` is invalid
+toml::integer opt = 42;
+toml::integer& i = toml::get_or(v, opt); // this works.
+```
+
+## Expecting conversion
+
+By using `toml::expect`, you will get your expected value or an error message
+without throwing `toml::type_error`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto value = toml::expect<std::string>(data.at("title"));
+if(value.is_ok()) {
+ std::cout << value.unwrap() << std::endl;
+} else {
+ std::cout << value.unwrap_err() << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+Also, you can pass a function object to modify the expected value.
+
+```cpp
+const auto value = toml::expect<int>(data.at("number"))
+ .map(// function that receives expected type (here, int)
+ [](const int number) -> double {
+ return number * 1.5 + 1.0;
+ }).unwrap_or(/*default value =*/ 3.14);
+```
+
+## Visiting a toml::value
+
+toml11 provides `toml::visit` to apply a function to `toml::value` in the
+same way as `std::variant`.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v(3.14);
+toml::visit([](const auto& val) -> void {
+ std::cout << val << std::endl;
+ }, v);
+```
+
+The function object that would be passed to `toml::visit` must be able to
+receive all the possible TOML types. Also, the result types should be the same
+each other.
+
+## Constructing a toml::value
+
+`toml::value` can be constructed in various ways.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v(true); // boolean
+toml::value v(42); // integer
+toml::value v(3.14); // floating
+toml::value v("foobar"); // string
+toml::value v(toml::local_date(2019, toml::month_t::Apr, 1)); // date
+toml::value v{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; // array
+toml::value v{{"foo", 42}, {"bar", 3.14}, {"baz", "qux"}}; // table
+```
+
+When constructing a string, you can choose to use either literal or basic string.
+By default, it will be a basic string.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v("foobar", toml::string_t::basic );
+toml::value v("foobar", toml::string_t::literal);
+```
+
+Datetime objects can be constructed from `std::tm` and
+`std::chrono::system_clock::time_point`. But you need to specify what type
+you use to avoid ambiguity.
+
+```cpp
+const auto now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
+toml::value v(toml::local_date(now));
+toml::value v(toml::local_datetime(now));
+toml::value v(toml::offset_datetime(now));
+```
+
+Since local time is not equivalent to a time point, because it lacks date
+information, it will be constructed from `std::chrono::duration`.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v(toml::local_time(std::chrono::hours(10)));
+```
+
+You can construct an array object not only from `initializer_list`, but also
+from STL containers. In that case, the element type must be convertible to
+`toml::value`.
+
+```cpp
+std::vector<int> vec{1,2,3,4,5};
+toml::value v(vec);
+```
+
+When you construct an array value, all the elements of `initializer_list`
+must be convertible into `toml::value`.
+
+If a `toml::value` has an array, you can `push_back` an element in it.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v{1,2,3,4,5};
+v.push_back(6);
+```
+
+`emplace_back` also works.
+
+## Preserving comments
+
+toml11 v3 or later allows you yo choose whether comments are preserved or not via template parameter
+
+```cpp
+const auto data1 = toml::parse<toml::discard_comments >("example.toml");
+const auto data2 = toml::parse<toml::preserve_comments>("example.toml");
+```
+
+or macro definition.
+
+```cpp
+#define TOML11_PRESERVE_COMMENTS_BY_DEFAULT
+#include <toml11/toml.hpp>
+```
+
+This feature is controlled by template parameter in `toml::basic_value<...>`.
+`toml::value` is an alias of `toml::basic_value<...>`.
+
+If template parameter is explicitly specified, the return value of `toml::parse`
+will be `toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments>`.
+If the macro is defined, the alias `toml::value` will be
+`toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments>`.
+
+Comments related to a value can be obtained by `toml::value::comments()`.
+The return value has the same interface as `std::vector<std::string>`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto& com = v.comments();
+for(const auto& c : com)
+{
+ std::cout << c << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+Comments just before and just after (within the same line) a value are kept in a value.
+
+```toml
+# this is a comment for v1.
+v1 = "foo"
+
+v2 = "bar" # this is a comment for v2.
+# Note that this comment is NOT a comment for v2.
+
+# this comment is not related to any value
+# because there are empty lines between v3.
+# this comment will be ignored even if you set `preserve_comments`.
+
+# this is a comment for v3
+# this is also a comment for v3.
+v3 = "baz" # ditto.
+```
+
+Each comment line becomes one element of a `std::vector`.
+
+Hash signs will be removed, but spaces after hash sign will not be removed.
+
+```cpp
+v1.comments().at(0) == " this is a comment for v1."s;
+
+v2.comments().at(1) == " this is a comment for v1."s;
+
+v3.comments().at(0) == " this is a comment for v3."s;
+v3.comments().at(1) == " this is also a comment for v3."s;
+v3.comments().at(2) == " ditto."s;
+```
+
+Note that a comment just after an opening brace of an array will not be a
+comment for the array.
+
+```toml
+# this is a comment for a.
+a = [ # this is not a comment for a. this will be ignored.
+ 1, 2, 3,
+ # this is a comment for `42`.
+ 42, # this is also a comment for `42`.
+ 5
+] # this is a comment for a.
+```
+
+You can also append and modify comments.
+The interfaces are the same as `std::vector<std::string>`.
+
+```cpp
+toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments> v(42);
+v.comments().push_back(" add this comment.");
+// # add this comment.
+// i = 42
+```
+
+Also, you can pass a `std::vector<std::string>` when constructing a
+`toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments>`.
+
+```cpp
+std::vector<std::string> comments{"comment 1", "comment 2"};
+const toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments> v1(42, std::move(comments));
+const toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments> v2(42, {"comment 1", "comment 2"});
+```
+
+When `toml::discard_comments` is chosen, comments will not be contained in a value.
+`value::comments()` will always be kept empty.
+All the modification on comments would be ignored.
+All the element access in a `discard_comments` causes the same error as accessing
+an element of an empty `std::vector`.
+
+The comments will also be serialized. If comments exist, those comments will be
+added just before the values.
+
+__NOTE__: Result types from `toml::parse(...)` and
+`toml::parse<toml::preserve_comments>(...)` are different.
+
+## Customizing containers
+
+Actually, `toml::basic_value` has 3 template arguments.
+
+```cpp
+template<typename Comment, // discard/preserve_comment
+ template<typename ...> class Table = std::unordered_map,
+ template<typename ...> class Array = std::vector>
+class basic_value;
+```
+
+This enables you to change the containers used inside. E.g. you can use
+`std::map` to contain a table object instead of `std::unordered_map`.
+And also can use `std::deque` as a array object instead of `std::vector`.
+
+You can set these parameters while calling `toml::parse` function.
+
+```cpp
+const auto data = toml::parse<
+ toml::preserve_comments, std::map, std::deque
+ >("example.toml");
+```
+
+Needless to say, the result types from `toml::parse(...)` and
+`toml::parse<Com, Map, Cont>(...)` are different (unless you specify the same
+types as default).
+
+Note that, since `toml::table` and `toml::array` is an alias for a table and an
+array of a default `toml::value`, so it is different from the types actually
+contained in a `toml::basic_value` when you customize containers.
+To get the actual type in a generic way, use
+`typename toml::basic_type<C, T, A>::table_type` and
+`typename toml::basic_type<C, T, A>::array_type`.
+
+## TOML literal
+
+toml11 supports `"..."_toml` literal.
+It accept both a bare value and a file content.
+
+```cpp
+using namespace toml::literals::toml_literals;
+
+// `_toml` can convert a bare value without key
+const toml::value v = u8"0xDEADBEEF"_toml;
+// v is an Integer value containing 0xDEADBEEF.
+
+// raw string literal (`R"(...)"` is useful for this purpose)
+const toml::value t = u8R"(
+ title = "this is TOML literal"
+ [table]
+ key = "value"
+)"_toml;
+// the literal will be parsed and the result will be contained in t
+```
+
+The literal function is defined in the same way as the standard library literals
+such as `std::literals::string_literals::operator""s`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml
+{
+inline namespace literals
+{
+inline namespace toml_literals
+{
+toml::value operator"" _toml(const char* str, std::size_t len);
+} // toml_literals
+} // literals
+} // toml
+```
+
+Access to the operator can be gained with `using namespace toml::literals;`,
+`using namespace toml::toml_literals`, and `using namespace toml::literals::toml_literals`.
+
+Note that a key that is composed only of digits is allowed in TOML.
+And, unlike the file parser, toml-literal allows a bare value without a key.
+Thus it is difficult to distinguish arrays having integers and definitions of
+tables that are named as digits.
+Currently, literal `[1]` becomes a table named "1".
+To ensure a literal to be considered as an array with one element, you need to
+add a comma after the first element (like `[1,]`).
+
+```cpp
+"[1,2,3]"_toml; // This is an array
+"[table]"_toml; // This is a table that has an empty table named "table" inside.
+"[[1,2,3]]"_toml; // This is an array of arrays
+"[[table]]"_toml; // This is a table that has an array of tables inside.
+
+"[[1]]"_toml; // This literal is ambiguous.
+ // Currently, it becomes a table that has array of table "1".
+"1 = [{}]"_toml; // This is a table that has an array of table named 1.
+"[[1,]]"_toml; // This is an array of arrays.
+"[[1],]"_toml; // ditto.
+```
+
+NOTE: `_toml` literal returns a `toml::value` that does not have comments.
+
+## Conversion between toml value and arbitrary types
+
+You can also use `toml::get` and other related functions with the types
+you defined after you implement a way to convert it.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+};
+} // ext
+
+const auto data = toml::parse("example.toml");
+
+// to do this
+const foo f = toml::find<ext::foo>(data, "foo");
+```
+
+There are 3 ways to use `toml::get` with the types that you defined.
+
+The first one is to implement `from_toml(const toml::value&)` member function.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+
+ void from_toml(const toml::value& v)
+ {
+ this->a = toml::find<int >(v, "a");
+ this->b = toml::find<double >(v, "b");
+ this->c = toml::find<std::string>(v, "c");
+ return;
+ }
+};
+} // ext
+```
+
+In this way, because `toml::get` first constructs `foo` without arguments,
+the type should be default-constructible.
+
+The second is to implement `constructor(const toml::value&)`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ explicit foo(const toml::value& v)
+ : a(toml::find<int>(v, "a")), b(toml::find<double>(v, "b")),
+ c(toml::find<std::string>(v, "c"))
+ {}
+
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+};
+} // ext
+```
+
+Note that implicit default constructor declaration will be suppressed
+when a constructor is defined. If you want to use the struct (here, `foo`)
+in a container (e.g. `std::vector<foo>`), you may need to define default
+constructor explicitly.
+
+The third is to implement specialization of `toml::from` for your type.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+};
+} // ext
+
+namespace toml
+{
+template<>
+struct from<ext::foo>
+{
+ static ext::foo from_toml(const value& v)
+ {
+ ext::foo f;
+ f.a = find<int >(v, "a");
+ f.b = find<double >(v, "b");
+ f.c = find<std::string>(v, "c");
+ return f;
+ }
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+In this way, since the conversion function is defined outside of the class,
+you can add conversion between `toml::value` and classes defined in another library.
+
+In some cases, a class has a templatized constructor that takes a template, `T`.
+It confuses `toml::get/find<T>` because it makes the class "constructible" from
+`toml::value`. To avoid this problem, `toml::from` and `from_toml` always
+precede constructor. It makes easier to implement conversion between
+`toml::value` and types defined in other libraries because it skips constructor.
+
+But, importantly, you cannot define `toml::from<T>` and `T.from_toml` at the same
+time because it causes ambiguity in the overload resolution of `toml::get<T>` and `toml::find<T>`.
+
+So the precedence is `toml::from<T>` == `T.from_toml()` > `T(toml::value)`.
+
+If you want to convert any versions of `toml::basic_value`,
+you need to templatize the conversion function as follows.
+
+```cpp
+struct foo
+{
+ template<typename C, template<typename ...> class M, template<typename ...> class A>
+ void from_toml(const toml::basic_value<C, M, A>& v)
+ {
+ this->a = toml::find<int >(v, "a");
+ this->b = toml::find<double >(v, "b");
+ this->c = toml::find<std::string>(v, "c");
+ return;
+ }
+};
+// or
+namespace toml
+{
+template<>
+struct from<ext::foo>
+{
+ template<typename C, template<typename ...> class M, template<typename ...> class A>
+ static ext::foo from_toml(const basic_value<C, M, A>& v)
+ {
+ ext::foo f;
+ f.a = find<int >(v, "a");
+ f.b = find<double >(v, "b");
+ f.c = find<std::string>(v, "c");
+ return f;
+ }
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+----
+
+The opposite direction is also supported in a similar way. You can directly
+pass your type to `toml::value`'s constructor by introducing `into_toml` or
+`toml::into<T>`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+
+ toml::value into_toml() const // you need to mark it const.
+ {
+ return toml::value{{"a", this->a}, {"b", this->b}, {"c", this->c}};
+ }
+};
+} // ext
+
+ext::foo f{42, 3.14, "foobar"};
+toml::value v(f);
+```
+
+The definition of `toml::into<T>` is similar to `toml::from<T>`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace ext
+{
+struct foo
+{
+ int a;
+ double b;
+ std::string c;
+};
+} // ext
+
+namespace toml
+{
+template<>
+struct into<ext::foo>
+{
+ static toml::value into_toml(const ext::foo& f)
+ {
+ return toml::value{{"a", f.a}, {"b", f.b}, {"c", f.c}};
+ }
+};
+} // toml
+
+ext::foo f{42, 3.14, "foobar"};
+toml::value v(f);
+```
+
+Any type that can be converted to `toml::value`, e.g. `int`, `toml::table` and
+`toml::array` are okay to return from `into_toml`.
+
+You can also return a custom `toml::basic_value` from `toml::into`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml
+{
+template<>
+struct into<ext::foo>
+{
+ static toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments> into_toml(const ext::foo& f)
+ {
+ toml::basic_value<toml::preserve_comments> v{{"a", f.a}, {"b", f.b}, {"c", f.c}};
+ v.comments().push_back(" comment");
+ return v;
+ }
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+But note that, if this `basic_value` would be assigned into other `toml::value`
+that discards `comments`, the comments would be dropped.
+
+### Macro to automatically define conversion functions
+
+There is a helper macro that automatically generates conversion functions `from` and `into` for a simple struct.
+
+```cpp
+namespace foo
+{
+struct Foo
+{
+ std::string s;
+ double d;
+ int i;
+};
+} // foo
+
+TOML11_DEFINE_CONVERSION_NON_INTRUSIVE(foo::Foo, s, d, i)
+
+int main()
+{
+ const auto file = toml::parse("example.toml");
+ auto f = toml::find<foo::Foo>(file, "foo");
+}
+```
+
+And then you can use `toml::find<foo::Foo>(file, "foo");`
+
+**Note** that, because of a slight difference in implementation of preprocessor between gcc/clang and MSVC, [you need to define `/Zc:preprocessor`](https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11/issues/139#issuecomment-803683682) to use it in MSVC (Thank you @glebm !).
+
+## Formatting user-defined error messages
+
+When you encounter an error after you read the toml value, you may want to
+show the error with the value.
+
+toml11 provides you a function that formats user-defined error message with
+related values. With a code like the following,
+
+```cpp
+const auto value = toml::find<int>(data, "num");
+if(value < 0)
+{
+ std::cerr << toml::format_error("[error] value should be positive",
+ data.at("num"), "positive number required")
+ << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+you will get an error message like this.
+
+```console
+[error] value should be positive
+ --> example.toml
+ 3 | num = -42
+ | ~~~ positive number required
+```
+
+When you pass two values to `toml::format_error`,
+
+```cpp
+const auto min = toml::find<int>(range, "min");
+const auto max = toml::find<int>(range, "max");
+if(max < min)
+{
+ std::cerr << toml::format_error("[error] max should be larger than min",
+ data.at("min"), "minimum number here",
+ data.at("max"), "maximum number here");
+ << std::endl;
+}
+```
+
+you will get an error message like this.
+
+```console
+[error] max should be larger than min
+ --> example.toml
+ 3 | min = 54
+ | ~~ minimum number here
+ ...
+ 4 | max = 42
+ | ~~ maximum number here
+```
+
+You can print hints at the end of the message.
+
+```cpp
+std::vector<std::string> hints;
+hints.push_back("positive number means n >= 0.");
+hints.push_back("negative number is not positive.");
+std::cerr << toml::format_error("[error] value should be positive",
+ data.at("num"), "positive number required", hints)
+ << std::endl;
+```
+
+```console
+[error] value should be positive
+ --> example.toml
+ 2 | num = 42
+ | ~~ positive number required
+ |
+Hint: positive number means n >= 0.
+Hint: negative number is not positive.
+```
+
+## Obtaining location information
+
+You can also format error messages in your own way by using `source_location`.
+
+```cpp
+struct source_location
+{
+ std::uint_least32_t line() const noexcept;
+ std::uint_least32_t column() const noexcept;
+ std::uint_least32_t region() const noexcept;
+ std::string const& file_name() const noexcept;
+ std::string const& line_str() const noexcept;
+};
+// +-- line() +--- length of the region (here, region() == 9)
+// v .---+---.
+// 12 | value = "foo bar" <- line_str() returns the line itself.
+// ^-------- column() points here
+```
+
+You can get this by
+```cpp
+const toml::value v = /*...*/;
+const toml::source_location loc = v.location();
+```
+
+## Exceptions
+
+The following `exception` classes inherits `toml::exception` that inherits
+`std::exception`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml {
+struct exception : public std::exception {/**/};
+struct syntax_error : public toml::exception {/**/};
+struct type_error : public toml::exception {/**/};
+struct internal_error : public toml::exception {/**/};
+} // toml
+```
+
+`toml::exception` has `toml::exception::location()` member function that returns
+`toml::source_location`, in addition to `what()`.
+
+```cpp
+namespace toml {
+struct exception : public std::exception
+{
+ // ...
+ source_location const& location() const noexcept;
+};
+} // toml
+```
+
+It represents where the error occurs.
+
+`syntax_error` will be thrown from `toml::parse` and `_toml` literal.
+`type_error` will be thrown from `toml::get/find`, `toml::value::as_xxx()`, and
+other functions that takes a content inside of `toml::value`.
+
+Note that, currently, from `toml::value::at()` and `toml::find(value, key)`
+may throw an `std::out_of_range` that does not inherits `toml::exception`.
+
+Also, in some cases, most likely in the file open error, it will throw an
+`std::runtime_error`.
+
+## Colorize Error Messages
+
+By defining `TOML11_COLORIZE_ERROR_MESSAGE`, the error messages from
+`toml::parse` and `toml::find|get` will be colorized. By default, this feature
+is turned off.
+
+With the following toml file taken from `toml-lang/toml/tests/hard_example.toml`,
+
+```toml
+[error]
+array = [
+ "This might most likely happen in multiline arrays",
+ Like here,
+ "or here,
+ and here"
+ ] End of array comment, forgot the #
+```
+
+the error message would be like this.
+
+![error-message-1](https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11/blob/misc/misc/toml11-err-msg-1.png)
+
+With the following,
+
+```toml
+[error]
+# array = [
+# "This might most likely happen in multiline arrays",
+# Like here,
+# "or here,
+# and here"
+# ] End of array comment, forgot the #
+number = 3.14 pi <--again forgot the #
+```
+
+the error message would be like this.
+
+![error-message-2](https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11/blob/misc/misc/toml11-err-msg-2.png)
+
+The message would be messy when it is written to a file, not a terminal because
+it uses [ANSI escape code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code).
+
+Without `TOML11_COLORIZE_ERROR_MESSAGE`, you can still colorize user-defined
+error message by passing `true` to the `toml::format_error` function.
+If you define `TOML11_COLORIZE_ERROR_MESSAGE`, the value is `true` by default.
+If not, the default value would be `false`.
+
+```cpp
+std::cerr << toml::format_error("[error] value should be positive",
+ data.at("num"), "positive number required",
+ hints, /*colorize = */ true) << std::endl;
+```
+
+Note: It colorize `[error]` in red. That means that it detects `[error]` prefix
+at the front of the error message. If there is no `[error]` prefix,
+`format_error` adds it to the error message.
+
+## Serializing TOML data
+
+toml11 enables you to serialize data into toml format.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value data{{"foo", 42}, {"bar", "baz"}};
+std::cout << data << std::endl;
+// bar = "baz"
+// foo = 42
+```
+
+toml11 automatically makes a small table and small array inline.
+You can specify the width to make them inline by `std::setw` for streams.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value data{
+ {"qux", {{"foo", 42}, {"bar", "baz"}}},
+ {"quux", {"small", "array", "of", "strings"}},
+ {"foobar", {"this", "array", "of", "strings", "is", "too", "long",
+ "to", "print", "into", "single", "line", "isn't", "it?"}},
+};
+
+// the threshold becomes 80.
+std::cout << std::setw(80) << data << std::endl;
+// foobar = [
+// "this","array","of","strings","is","too","long","to","print","into",
+// "single","line","isn't","it?",
+// ]
+// quux = ["small","array","of","strings"]
+// qux = {bar="baz",foo=42}
+
+
+// the width is 0. nothing become inline.
+std::cout << std::setw(0) << data << std::endl;
+// foobar = [
+// "this",
+// ... (snip)
+// "it?",
+// ]
+// quux = [
+// "small",
+// "array",
+// "of",
+// "strings",
+// ]
+// [qux]
+// bar = "baz"
+// foo = 42
+```
+
+It is recommended to set width before printing data. Some I/O functions changes
+width to 0, and it makes all the stuff (including `toml::array`) multiline.
+The resulting files becomes too long.
+
+To control the precision of floating point numbers, you need to pass
+`std::setprecision` to stream.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value data{
+ {"pi", 3.141592653589793},
+ {"e", 2.718281828459045}
+};
+std::cout << std::setprecision(17) << data << std::endl;
+// e = 2.7182818284590451
+// pi = 3.1415926535897931
+std::cout << std::setprecision( 7) << data << std::endl;
+// e = 2.718282
+// pi = 3.141593
+```
+
+There is another way to format toml values, `toml::format()`.
+It returns `std::string` that represents a value.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v{{"a", 42}};
+const std::string fmt = toml::format(v);
+// a = 42
+```
+
+Note that since `toml::format` formats a value, the resulting string may lack
+the key value.
+
+```cpp
+const toml::value v{3.14};
+const std::string fmt = toml::format(v);
+// 3.14
+```
+
+To control the width and precision, `toml::format` receives optional second and
+third arguments to set them. By default, the width is 80 and the precision is
+`std::numeric_limits<double>::max_digit10`.
+
+```cpp
+const auto serial = toml::format(data, /*width = */ 0, /*prec = */ 17);
+```
+
+When you pass a comment-preserving-value, the comment will also be serialized.
+An array or a table containing a value that has a comment would not be inlined.
+
+## Underlying types
+
+The toml types (can be used as `toml::*` in this library) and corresponding `enum` names are listed in the table below.
+
+| TOML type | underlying c++ type | enum class |
+| -------------- | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
+| Boolean | `bool` | `toml::value_t::boolean` |
+| Integer | `std::int64_t` | `toml::value_t::integer` |
+| Float | `double` | `toml::value_t::floating` |
+| String | `toml::string` | `toml::value_t::string` |
+| LocalDate | `toml::local_date` | `toml::value_t::local_date` |
+| LocalTime | `toml::local_time` | `toml::value_t::local_time` |
+| LocalDatetime | `toml::local_datetime` | `toml::value_t::local_datetime` |
+| OffsetDatetime | `toml::offset_datetime` | `toml::value_t::offset_datetime` |
+| Array | `array-like<toml::value>` | `toml::value_t::array` |
+| Table | `map-like<toml::key, toml::value>` | `toml::value_t::table` |
+
+`array-like` and `map-like` are the STL containers that works like a `std::vector` and
+`std::unordered_map`, respectively. By default, `std::vector` and `std::unordered_map`
+are used. See [Customizing containers](#customizing-containers) for detail.
+
+`toml::string` is effectively the same as `std::string` but has an additional
+flag that represents a kind of a string, `string_t::basic` and `string_t::literal`.
+Although `std::string` is not an exact toml type, still you can get a reference
+that points to internal `std::string` by using `toml::get<std::string>()` for convenience.
+The most important difference between `std::string` and `toml::string` is that
+`toml::string` will be formatted as a TOML string when outputted with `ostream`.
+This feature is introduced to make it easy to write a custom serializer.
+
+`Datetime` variants are `struct` that are defined in this library.
+Because `std::chrono::system_clock::time_point` is a __time point__,
+not capable of representing a Local Time independent from a specific day.
+
+## Unreleased TOML features
+
+Since TOML v1.0.0-rc.1 has been released, those features are now activated by
+default. We no longer need to define `TOML11_USE_UNRELEASED_FEATURES`.
+
+- Leading zeroes in exponent parts of floats are permitted.
+ - e.g. `1.0e+01`, `5e+05`
+ - [toml-lang/toml/PR/656](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/656)
+- Allow raw tab characters in basic strings and multi-line basic strings.
+ - [toml-lang/toml/PR/627](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/627)
+- Allow heterogeneous arrays
+ - [toml-lang/toml/PR/676](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/676)
+
+## Note about heterogeneous arrays
+
+Although `toml::parse` allows heterogeneous arrays, constructor of `toml::value`
+does not. Here the reason is explained.
+
+```cpp
+// this won't be compiled
+toml::value v{
+ "foo", 3.14, 42, {1,2,3,4,5}, {{"key", "value"}}
+}
+```
+
+There is a workaround for this. By explicitly converting values into
+`toml::value`, you can initialize `toml::value` with a heterogeneous array.
+Also, you can first initialize a `toml::value` with an array and then
+`push_back` into it.
+
+```cpp
+// OK!
+toml::value v{
+ toml::value("foo"), toml::value(3.14), toml::value(42),
+ toml::value{1,2,3,4,5}, toml::value{{"key", "value"}}
+}
+
+// OK!
+toml::value v(toml::array{});
+v.push_back("foo");
+v.push_back(3.14);
+
+// OK!
+toml::array a;
+a.push_back("foo");
+a.push_back(3.14);
+toml::value v(std::move(a));
+```
+
+The reason why the first example is not allowed is the following.
+Let's assume that you are initializing a `toml::value` with a table.
+
+```cpp
+ // # expecting TOML table.
+toml::value v{ // [v]
+ {"answer", 42}, // answer = 42
+ {"pi", 3.14}, // pi = 3.14
+ {"foo", "bar"} // foo = "bar"
+};
+```
+
+This is indistinguishable from a (heterogeneous) TOML array definition.
+
+```toml
+v = [
+ ["answer", 42],
+ ["pi", 3.14],
+ ["foo", "bar"],
+]
+```
+
+This means that the above C++ code makes constructor's overload resolution
+ambiguous. So a constructor that allows both "table as an initializer-list" and
+"heterogeneous array as an initializer-list" cannot be implemented.
+
+Thus, although it is painful, we need to explicitly cast values into
+`toml::value` when you initialize heterogeneous array in a C++ code.
+
+```cpp
+toml::value v{
+ toml::value("foo"), toml::value(3.14), toml::value(42),
+ toml::value{1,2,3,4,5}, toml::value{{"key", "value"}}
+};
+```
+
+## Breaking Changes from v2
+
+Although toml11 is relatively new library (it's three years old now), it had
+some confusing and inconvenient user-interfaces because of historical reasons.
+
+Between v2 and v3, those interfaces are rearranged.
+
+- `toml::parse` now returns a `toml::value`, not `toml::table`.
+- `toml::value` is now an alias of `toml::basic_value<discard_comment, std::vector, std::unordered_map>`.
+ - See [Customizing containers](#customizing-containers) for detail.
+- The elements of `toml::value_t` are renamed as `snake_case`.
+ - See [Underlying types](#underlying-types) for detail.
+- Supports for the CamelCaseNames are dropped.
+ - See [Underlying types](#underlying-types) for detail.
+- `(is|as)_float` has been removed to make the function names consistent with others.
+ - Since `float` is a keyword, toml11 named a float type as `toml::floating`.
+ - Also a `value_t` corresponds to `toml::floating` is named `value_t::floating`.
+ - So `(is|as)_floating` is introduced and `is_float` has been removed.
+ - See [Casting a toml::value](#casting-a-tomlvalue) and [Checking value type](#checking-value-type) for detail.
+- An overload of `toml::find` for `toml::table` has been dropped. Use `toml::value` version instead.
+ - Because type conversion between a table and a value causes ambiguity while overload resolution
+ - Since `toml::parse` now returns a `toml::value`, this feature becomes less important.
+ - Also because `toml::table` is a normal STL container, implementing utility function is easy.
+ - See [Finding a toml::value](#finding-a-toml-value) for detail.
+- An overload of `operator<<` and `toml::format` for `toml::table`s are dropped.
+ - Use `toml::value` instead.
+ - See [Serializing TOML data](#serializing-toml-data) for detail.
+- Interface around comments.
+ - See [Preserving Comments](#preserving-comments) for detail.
+- An ancient `from_toml/into_toml` has been removed. Use arbitrary type conversion support.
+ - See [Conversion between toml value and arbitrary types](#conversion-between-toml-value-and-arbitrary-types) for detail.
+
+Such a big change will not happen in the coming years.
+
+## Running Tests
+
+After cloning this repository, run the following command (thank you @jwillikers
+for automating test set fetching!).
+
+```sh
+$ mkdir build
+$ cd build
+$ cmake .. -Dtoml11_BUILD_TEST=ON
+$ make
+$ make test
+```
+
+To run the language agnostic test suite, you need to compile
+`tests/check_toml_test.cpp` and pass it to the tester.
+
+## Contributors
+
+I appreciate the help of the contributors who introduced the great feature to this library.
+
+- Guillaume Fraux (@Luthaf)
+ - Windows support and CI on Appvayor
+ - Intel Compiler support
+- Quentin Khan (@xaxousis)
+ - Found & Fixed a bug around ODR
+ - Improved error messages for invalid keys to show the location where the parser fails
+- Petr Beneš (@wbenny)
+ - Fixed warnings on MSVC
+- Ivan Shynkarenka (@chronoxor)
+ - Fixed Visual Studio 2019 warnings
+- @khoitd1997
+ - Fixed warnings while type conversion
+- @KerstinKeller
+ - Added installation script to CMake
+- J.C. Moyer (@jcmoyer)
+ - Fixed an example code in the documentation
+- Jt Freeman (@blockparty-sh)
+ - Fixed feature test macro around `localtime_s`
+ - Suppress warnings in Debug mode
+- OGAWA Kenichi (@kenichiice)
+ - Suppress warnings on intel compiler
+- Jordan Williams (@jwillikers)
+ - Fixed clang range-loop-analysis warnings
+ - Fixed feature test macro to suppress -Wundef
+ - Use cache variables in CMakeLists.txt
+ - Automate test set fetching, update and refactor CMakeLists.txt
+- Scott McCaskill
+ - Parse 9 digits (nanoseconds) of fractional seconds in a `local_time`
+- Shu Wang (@halfelf)
+ - fix "Finding a value in an array" example in README
+- @maass-tv and @SeverinLeonhardt
+ - Fix MSVC warning C4866
+- OGAWA KenIchi (@kenichiice)
+ - Fix include path in README
+- Mohammed Alyousef (@MoAlyousef)
+ - Made testing optional in CMake
+- Ivan Shynkarenka (@chronoxor)
+ - Fix compilation error in `<filesystem>` with MinGW
+- Alex Merry (@amerry)
+ - Add missing include files
+- sneakypete81 (@sneakypete81)
+ - Fix typo in error message
+- Oliver Kahrmann (@founderio)
+ - Fix missing filename in error message if parsed file is empty
+- Karl Nilsson (@karl-nilsson)
+ - Fix many spelling errors
+- ohdarling88 (@ohdarling)
+ - Fix a bug in a constructor of serializer
+- estshorter (@estshorter)
+ - Fix MSVC warning C26478
+- Philip Top (@phlptp)
+ - Improve checking standard library feature availability check
+- Louis Marascio (@marascio)
+ - Fix free-nonheap-object warning
+
+
+## Licensing terms
+
+This product is licensed under the terms of the [MIT License](LICENSE).
+
+- Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Toru Niina
+
+All rights reserved.