Improved parsing

Author: RGonTheNoble

src/RegistryTools.jl

@@ -286,7 +286,12 @@ function change_symbol(u::U, s::Symbol) where U<:AbstractAffineUnits
     return constructorof(U)(scale=uscale(u), offset=uoffset(u), dims=dimension(u), symbol=s)
 end
 
-_expr_preprocessing(str::String) = replace(str, " "=>"", "%"=>"percent")
+function _expr_preprocessing(str1::AbstractString)
+    space2mult = r"([\%\w]) +([\%\w])" => s"\1*\2"
+    str2 = replace(str1, space2mult) #Spaces between words are multiplications
+    str3 = replace(str2, space2mult) #Spaces between words are multiplications
+    return replace(str3, " "=>"", "%"=>"percent") #Eliminates extra spaces 
+end
 
 end
 

test/runtests.jl

@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ end
     @test q"1.0" == 1.0u""
     @test qparse("1%") == 0.01u""
     @test qparse("1.0") == 1.0u""
+    @test qparse("5  5kg") == 25u"kg"
 
     #Test showerror 
     testio = IOBuffer()