miller/pkg
John Kerl 28e28df46f Add opt-in --infer-booleans and --infer-special-floats type-inference flags (#965)
By default, Miller treats "true"/"false" and IEEE special floats like
"Inf", "Infinity", and "NaN" in data files as strings. This adds two
opt-in flags, following the existing -S/-A/-O inference-flag family:

* --infer-booleans: treat "true" and "false" (exactly those spellings,
  matching the DSL's and JSON's boolean literals) as booleans.
* --infer-special-floats: treat "Inf", "Infinity", and "NaN" --
  case-insensitively, with optional leading +/- on the first two -- as
  floats.

Unlike -S/-A/-O, these don't replace the package-level inferrer; they
augment it, so they compose with -A and -O. They intentionally have no
effect with -S/--infer-none, which disables type inference entirely.
Default behavior is unchanged.

Includes unit tests, regression-test cases under
test/cases/io-infer-flags/, and documentation updates.

Addresses #965.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 09:43:58 -04:00
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auxents Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
bifs Support %a %A %e %h %c %x %X in strptime (#1518) (#2179) 2026-07-08 16:42:03 -04:00
cli Add opt-in --infer-booleans and --infer-special-floats type-inference flags (#965) 2026-07-14 09:43:58 -04:00
climain Add DSL validate/dry-run: put/filter --explain (#2098 PR5) (#2131) 2026-07-03 18:12:23 -04:00
colorizer Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
dkvpx DKVPX reader: honor --ifs and --ips instead of hard-coding comma and equals (#2172) 2026-07-06 17:37:07 -04:00
dsl Add sparkline DSL function and mlr sparkline verb (#166) (#2177) 2026-07-07 15:47:01 -04:00
entrypoint Add mlr mcp MCP server + agent playbook, with a --no-shell gate (#2098 PR7) (#2133) 2026-07-03 19:41:49 -04:00
go-csv Some fixes for staticcheck (#2006) 2026-03-03 09:27:03 -05:00
input DKVPX reader: honor --ifs and --ips instead of hard-coding comma and equals (#2172) 2026-07-06 17:37:07 -04:00
lib Add mlr mcp MCP server + agent playbook, with a --no-shell gate (#2098 PR7) (#2133) 2026-07-03 19:41:49 -04:00
mlrval Add opt-in --infer-booleans and --infer-special-floats type-inference flags (#965) 2026-07-14 09:43:58 -04:00
output DKVPX reader: honor --ifs and --ips instead of hard-coding comma and equals (#2172) 2026-07-06 17:37:07 -04:00
parsing Add a first-class bytes type to the DSL, with b"..." literals and base64/hex codecs (#2122) 2026-07-03 11:58:44 -04:00
pbnjay-strptime Support %a %A %e %h %c %x %X in strptime (#1518) (#2179) 2026-07-08 16:42:03 -04:00
platform Performance and style fixes (#1981) 2026-02-18 09:19:31 -05:00
runtime Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
scan Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
stream Lint round 5+6: staticcheck and errcheck to zero (#2130) 2026-07-03 11:42:08 -04:00
terminals More AI skill/MCP docs (#2140) 2026-07-04 14:45:29 -04:00
transformers Add mlr rank verb (#2178) 2026-07-07 17:35:18 -04:00
types Strip dead code from pkg/ (#2121) 2026-07-01 19:32:13 -04:00
version Post-6.20.2 release: back to 6.20.2-dev 2026-07-04 15:44:14 -04:00
README.md Export library code in pkg/ (#1391) 2023-09-10 17:15:13 -04:00

Please see ../../README-dev.md for an overview; please see each subdirectory for details about it.