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+// This file is a part of toml++ and is subject to the the terms of the MIT license.
+// Copyright (c) Mark Gillard <mark.gillard@outlook.com.au>
+// See https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/blob/master/LICENSE for the full license text.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+// This example demonstrates how to parse TOML from a file or stdin and re-serialize it (print it out) to stdout.
+
+#include "examples.hpp"
+#include <toml++/toml.hpp>
+
+using namespace std::string_view_literals;
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv)
+{
+	const auto path = argc > 1 ? std::string_view{ argv[1] } : "example.toml"sv;
+
+	toml::table tbl;
+	try
+	{
+		// read directly from stdin
+		if (path == "-"sv || path.empty())
+			tbl = toml::parse(std::cin, "stdin"sv);
+
+		// read from a file
+		else
+			tbl = toml::parse_file(path);
+	}
+	catch (const toml::parse_error& err)
+	{
+		std::cerr << err << "\n";
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	std::cout << tbl << "\n";
+	return 0;
+}