From c31005a284f7cb8c2304f066ffbf8e3232c35d69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rschulz <rschulz@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:12:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added "yes" and "no" to the possible values for bool values
 as read in by ParameterHandler::get_bool.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@11177 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/base/include/base/parameter_handler.h | 5 ++++-
 deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc      | 4 ++--
 deal.II/doc/news/changes.html                 | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/base/include/base/parameter_handler.h b/deal.II/base/include/base/parameter_handler.h
index c97c055d87..27489b2b3a 100644
--- a/deal.II/base/include/base/parameter_handler.h
+++ b/deal.II/base/include/base/parameter_handler.h
@@ -1371,7 +1371,10 @@ class ParameterHandler
 				     /**
 				      * Return value of entry
 				      * <tt>entry_string</tt> as <tt>bool</tt>.
-				      */
+                                      * The entry may be "true" or "yes" 
+                                      * for <tt>true</tt>, "false" or
+                                      * "no" for <tt>false</tt> respectively.
+                                      */
     bool           get_bool (const std::string &entry_string) const;
 
 				     /**
diff --git a/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc b/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
index 8c5cdae149..117b20a86b 100644
--- a/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
+++ b/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
@@ -786,8 +786,8 @@ bool ParameterHandler::get_bool (const std::string &entry_string) const
 {
   std::string s = get(entry_string);
 
-  AssertThrow ((s=="true") || (s=="false"), ExcConversionError(s));
-  if (s=="true")
+  AssertThrow ((s=="true") || (s=="false") || (s=="yes") || (s=="no"), ExcConversionError(s));
+  if (s=="true" || s=="yes")
     return true;
   else
     return false;
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.html b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.html
index f7a36431b0..96c2d02048 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.html
@@ -251,6 +251,14 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 <h3>base</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> <p>
+       Changed: <code>ParameterHandler::get_bool()</code> only accepted
+       "true" or "false" as boolean values, now it also considers "yes"
+       and "no" as "true" and "false" respectively.
+       <br>
+       (Ralf B. Schulz, 2005/07/19)
+       </p>
+       
   <li> <p>
        Removed: The <code>write_multigrid</code> flag in <code
        class="member">DataOutBase::DXFlags</code> 
-- 
2.39.5