allow transform to work with arrays.

include/CLI/TypeTools.hpp

@@ -74,13 +74,16 @@ template <> struct IsMemberType<const char *> { using type = std::string; };
 
 namespace detail {
 
-// These are utilities for IsMember
+// These are utilities for IsMember and other transforming objects
 
 /// Handy helper to access the element_type generically. This is not part of is_copyable_ptr because it requires that
 /// pointer_traits<T> be valid.
-template <typename T> struct element_type {
-    using type =
-        typename std::conditional<is_copyable_ptr<T>::value, typename std::pointer_traits<T>::element_type, T>::type;
+
+/// not a pointer
+template <typename T, typename Enable = void> struct element_type { using type = T; };
+
+template <typename T> struct element_type<T, typename std::enable_if<is_copyable_ptr<T>::value>::type> {
+    using type = typename std::pointer_traits<T>::element_type;
 };
 
 /// Combination of the element type and value type - remove pointer (including smart pointers) and get the value_type of

tests/TransformTest.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "app_helper.hpp"
 
+#include <array>
 #include <unordered_map>
 
 #if defined(CLI11_CPP17)
@@ -154,6 +155,52 @@ TEST_F(TApp, SimpleNumericalTransformFn) {
     EXPECT_EQ(value, 1);
 }
 
+TEST_F(TApp, SimpleNumericalTransformFnVector) {
+    std::vector<std::pair<std::string, int>> conversions{{"one", 1}, {"two", 2}};
+    int value;
+    auto opt = app.add_option("-s", value)->transform(CLI::Transformer(conversions, CLI::ignore_case));
+    args = {"-s", "ONe"};
+    run();
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, app.count("-s"));
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, opt->count());
+    EXPECT_EQ(value, 1);
+}
+
+TEST_F(TApp, SimpleNumericalTransformFnArray) {
+    std::array<std::pair<std::string, int>, 2> conversions;
+    conversions[0] = std::make_pair(std::string("one"), 1);
+    conversions[1] = std::make_pair(std::string("two"), 2);
+
+    int value;
+    auto opt = app.add_option("-s", value)->transform(CLI::Transformer(conversions, CLI::ignore_case));
+    args = {"-s", "ONe"};
+    run();
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, app.count("-s"));
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, opt->count());
+    EXPECT_EQ(value, 1);
+}
+
+// zero copy constexpr array operation with transformer example and test
+TEST_F(TApp, SimpleNumericalTransformFnconstexprArray) {
+    constexpr std::pair<const char *, int> p1{"one", 1};
+    constexpr std::pair<const char *, int> p2{"two", 2};
+    constexpr std::array<std::pair<const char *, int>, 2> conversions_c{{p1, p2}};
+
+    int value;
+    auto opt = app.add_option("-s", value)->transform(CLI::Transformer(&conversions_c, CLI::ignore_case));
+    args = {"-s", "ONe"};
+    run();
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, app.count("-s"));
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, opt->count());
+    EXPECT_EQ(value, 1);
+
+    args = {"-s", "twO"};
+    run();
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, app.count("-s"));
+    EXPECT_EQ(1u, opt->count());
+    EXPECT_EQ(value, 2);
+}
+
 TEST_F(TApp, EnumTransformFn) {
     enum class test : int16_t { val1 = 3, val2 = 4, val3 = 17 };
     test value;