On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Sean Farley <[email protected]> wrote:

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The existing, but non working, function is called PetscOptionsInsertFile_YAML. I just kept its name without checking the petsc developer style guide. My mistake.

The attached patch fixes this issue.

"There is a limit of 128,000 char on the file length." … What? The old function had a (temporary) limit of 128,000 characters *per line* but both approaches should be using Petscgetline().

Unless I am proven wrong, it seems that the old function also had a limit of 0 char it would _actually_ parse. src/sys/objects/options.c:388 /* Warning: assume a maximum size for all options in a string */ ierr = PetscMalloc(128000*sizeof(char),&vstring);CHKERRQ(ierr); vstring[0] = 0; This needs to be fixed too, then. Blaise -- Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Tel. +1 (225) 578 1612, Fax +1 (225) 578 4276 http://www.math.lsu.edu/~bourdin