From 4a5a35e2f96acae54d716850f4fa4f88e61f9a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Heltai <luca.heltai@sissa.it>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:56:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added another constructor type.

---
 include/deal.II/base/patterns.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 source/base/patterns.cc         |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h b/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
index 14470889b7..7f143c4303 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
@@ -700,6 +700,15 @@ namespace Patterns
     Tuple (const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<PatternBase> > &patterns,
            const std::string  &separator = ",");
 
+    /**
+     * Constructor. Same as above, specialized for const char *. This is
+     * necessary to avoid compilers errors due to the variadic constructors
+     * provided below.
+     */
+    Tuple (const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<PatternBase> > &patterns,
+           const char *separator);
+
+
     /**
      * Constructor. Creates a Tuple from more than one class derived from
      * PatternBase.
@@ -716,7 +725,7 @@ namespace Patterns
      * directly the separator without using std::string(";").
      *
      * Since we support a pure variadic templates version, without this
-     * specialization, the compiler will fail with criptyc errors.
+     * specialization, the compiler will fail with cryptic errors.
      */
     template<class... PatternTypes>
     Tuple (const char *separator,
diff --git a/source/base/patterns.cc b/source/base/patterns.cc
index 4d56e88b62..7c529584cc 100644
--- a/source/base/patterns.cc
+++ b/source/base/patterns.cc
@@ -966,6 +966,13 @@ namespace Patterns
 
 
 
+  Tuple::Tuple (const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<PatternBase> >  &ps,
+                const char *separator) :
+    Tuple(ps, std::string(separator))
+  {}
+
+
+
   Tuple::Tuple (const Tuple &other)
     :
     separator (other.separator)
-- 
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