Jörg Meier

> `DelimitedFileReaderOfString (modified copy of DelimitedFileReader)` > this is going to be troublesome. What made you do that? What's the missing feature in DFR? As far I understood DelimitedFileReader, it...

> I'd rather have a templated interface to DFR that does a type conversion on the fly. Could you please explain more in detail?

> Add a templated getData method to the original DelimitedFileReader that either returns a copy of a column vector converted into the desired type, or returns an iterable proxy object...

> given that there is no test right now it's not impossible I broke one of the two objects with my changes happy to fix it as long as you...

Dear @GiudGiud, After _many_ attempts I'm unable to get the build process to succeed. The error message remains unchanged. I tried: - I updated my development machine (Ubuntu in WSL):...

Dear @GiudGiud, > do you have those test inputs? Only as a first untested draft. The idea was to finalize them and to test your modifications using the final code...

> your branch compiles fine on my machine. Could you try to see if it compiles with > > ``` > cd ~/projects/moose > git commit -am "Everything saved" >...

Dear @GiudGiud Finally, I can provide tests and a docu. > @grunerjmeier do you have those test inputs? You could create them with your initial version of the PR btw...

Dear @GiudGiud, With [4e9ccfa](https://github.com/idaholab/moose/pull/27092/commits/4e9ccfaf4f834eba71d10bf1e5a7183725897d77) I switched back to the new implementation of the `DelimitedFileReader`. As before, with the new `DelimitedFileReader` I'm unable to build ("undefined reference to 'MooseUtils::DelimitedFileReaderTempl'" ). With...

> Ok the template should work now on your machine. I was missing a few things. Funny that it still compiled on my machine. This looks good. I can confirm...