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diff --git a/CarFire/CarFire/CarFire/Parse.cs b/CarFire/CarFire/CarFire/Parse.cs
index b932077..4c2abcc 100644
--- a/CarFire/CarFire/CarFire/Parse.cs
+++ b/CarFire/CarFire/CarFire/Parse.cs
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ namespace CarFire
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// Class with handy static methods taking strings and returning objects
-    /// parsed from those strings.
+    /// parsed from those strings.  For all of these functions, white space is
+    /// generally ignored, but superfluous characters are not allowed.
     /// </summary>
     public class Parse
     {
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ namespace CarFire
         /// Parses a comment of an INI file.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="line">Text.</param>
-        /// <returns>The comment.</returns>
+        /// <returns>The comment, or null if parsing failed.</returns>
         public static string IniComment(string line)
         {
             Match match = Regex.Match(line, @"^;\s*(.*)\s*$");
@@ -108,6 +109,18 @@ namespace CarFire
             return null;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Parses a single character.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="atom">Text.</param>
+        /// <returns>The character, or null if parsing failed.</returns>
+        public static char? Char(string atom)
+        {
+            string str = String(atom);
+            if (str != null && str.Length == 1) return str[0];
+            return null;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Parses a constant from an enum.
         /// </summary>
@@ -118,7 +131,7 @@ namespace CarFire
         {
             try
             {
-                return (T)System.Enum.Parse(typeof(T), String(atom), true);
+                return (T)System.Enum.Parse(typeof(T), String(atom));
             }
 #pragma warning disable 0168
             catch (System.Exception ex)
@@ -168,7 +181,7 @@ namespace CarFire
         /// Parses a function.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="atom">Text.</param>
-        /// <returns>An array two strings containing the function name and
+        /// <returns>An array with two strings containing the function name and
         /// parameter-list, in that order, or null if parsing failed.</returns>
         public static string[] Function(string atom)
         {