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NAME

6       Config::INI::Reader::Multiline - Parser for .ini files with line
7       continuations
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SYNOPSIS

10       If act.ini contains:
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12           [general]
13           conferences = ye2003 fpw2004 \
14                         apw2005 fpw2005 hpw2005 ipw2005 npw2005 ye2005 \
15                         apw2006 fpw2006 ipw2006 npw2006
16           cookie_name = act
17           searchlimit = 20
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19       And your program does:
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21           my $config = Config::INI::Reader::Multiline->read_file('act.ini');
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23       Then $config contains:
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25           {
26               general => {
27                   cookie_name => 'act',
28                   conferences => 'ye2003 fpw2004 apw2005 fpw2005 hpw2005 ipw2005 npw2005 ye2005 apw2006 fpw2006 ipw2006 npw2006',
29                   searchlimit => '20'
30               }
31           }
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DESCRIPTION

34       Config::INI::Reader::Multiline is a subclass of Config::INI::Reader
35       that offers support for line continuations, i.e. adding a "\<newline>"
36       (backslash-newline) at the end of a line to indicate the newline should
37       be removed from the input stream and ignored.
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39       In this implementation, the backslash can be followed and preceded by
40       whitespace, which will be ignored too (just as whitespace is trimmed by
41       Config::INI::Reader).
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METHODS

44       All methods from Config::INI::Reader are available, and none extra.
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OVERRIDEN METHODS

47       The following two methods from Config::INI::Reader are overriden (but
48       still call for the parent version):
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50   parse_value_assignment
51       This method skips lines ending with a "\" and leaves them to
52       "handle_unparsed_line" for buffering. When given a "normal" line to
53       process, it prepends the buffered lines, and lets the ancestor method
54       deal with the resulting line.
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56       Note that whitespace at the end of continued lines and at the beginning
57       of continuation lines is trimmed, and that consecutive lines are joined
58       with a single space character.
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60   handle_unparsed_line
61       This method buffers the unparsed lines that contain a "\" at the end,
62       and calls its parent class version to deal with the others.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

65       Thanks to Vincent Pit for help (on IRC, of course!) in finding a
66       descriptive but not too long name for this module.
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AUTHOR

69       Philippe Bruhat (BooK), <book@cpan.org>, who needed to read act.ini
70       files without AppConfig.
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73       Copyright 2014-2015 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), all rights reserved.
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LICENSE

76       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
77       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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81perl v5.30.1                      2020-01-29 Config::INI::Reader::Multiline(3)
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