Moved the 'parse_bool()' function from mkvmerge.cpp to the common string parsing file.

src/common/strings/parsing.cpp

@@ -296,3 +296,19 @@ parse_timecode(const std::string &src,
   return true;
 }
 
+/** \brief Parse a string for a boolean value
+
+   Interpretes the string \c orig as a boolean value. Accepted
+   is "true", "yes", "1" as boolean true and "false", "no", "0"
+   as boolean false.
+*/
+bool
+parse_bool(const std::string &orig) {
+  std::string s(downcase(orig));
+
+  if ((s == "yes") || (s == "true") || (s == "1"))
+    return true;
+  if ((s == "no") || (s == "false") || (s == "0"))
+    return false;
+  throw false;
+}

src/common/strings/parsing.h

@@ -59,4 +59,6 @@ parse_double(const std::string &s,
   return parse_double(s.c_str(), value);
 }
 
+bool MTX_DLL_API parse_bool(const std::string &orig);
+
 #endif  // __MTX_COMMON_STRING_PARSING_H

src/merge/mkvmerge.cpp

@@ -509,23 +509,6 @@ parse_number_with_unit(const std::string &s,
     return (int64_t)(multiplier * d_value);
 }
 
-/** \brief Parse a string for a boolean value
-
-   Interpretes the string \c orig as a boolean value. Accepted
-   is "true", "yes", "1" as boolean true and "false", "no", "0"
-   as boolean false.
-*/
-bool
-parse_bool(const std::string &orig) {
-  std::string s(downcase(orig));
-
-  if ((s == "yes") || (s == "true") || (s == "1"))
-    return true;
-  if ((s == "no") || (s == "false") || (s == "0"))
-    return false;
-  throw false;
-}
-
 /** \brief Parse tags and add them to the list of all tags
 
    Also tests the tags for missing mandatory elements.