1Config::INI(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       Config::INI(3)
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NAME

6       Config::INI - simple .ini-file format
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VERSION

9       version 0.025
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SYNOPSIS

12       Config-INI comes with code for reading .ini files:
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14         my $config_hash = Config::INI::Reader->read_file('config.ini');
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16       ...and for writing ".ini" files:
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18         Config::INI::Writer->write_file({ somekey => 'somevalue' }, 'config.ini');
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20       See Config::INI::Writer and Config::INI::Reader for more examples.
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GRAMMAR

23       This section describes the format parsed and produced by
24       Config::INI::Reader and ::Writer.  It is not an exhaustive and
25       rigorously tested formal grammar, it's just a description of this
26       particular implementation of the not-quite-standardized "INI" format.
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28         ini-file   = { <section> | <empty-line> }
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30         empty-line = [ <space> ] <line-ending>
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32         section        = <section-header> { <value-assignment> | <empty-line> }
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34         section-header = [ <space> ] "[" <section-name> "]" [ <space> ] <line-ending>
35         section-name   = string
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37         value-assignment = [ <space> ] <property-name> [ <space> ]
38                            "="
39                            [ <space> ] <value> [ <space> ]
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41         property-name    = string-without-equals
42         value            = string
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44         comment     = <space> ";" [ <string> ]
45         line-ending = [ <comment> ] <EOL>
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47         space = ( <TAB> | " " ) *
48         string-without-equals = string - "="
49         string = ? 1+ characters; not ";" or EOL; begins and ends with non-space ?
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51       Of special note is the fact that no escaping mechanism is defined,
52       meaning that there is no way to include an EOL or semicolon (for
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54       either subclass, wait for a subclass to be written for you, or find one
55       of the many other INI-style parsers on the CPAN.
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57       The order of sections and value assignments within a section are not
58       significant, except that given multiple assignments to one property
59       name within a section, only the final one is used.  A section name may
60       be used more than once; this will have the identical meaning as having
61       all property assignments in all sections of that name in sequence.
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DON'T FORGET

64       The definitions above refer to the format used by the Reader and Writer
65       classes bundled in the Config-INI distribution.  These classes are
66       designed for easy subclassing, so it should be easy to replace their
67       behavior with whatever behavior your want.
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69       Patches, feature requests, and bug reports are welcome -- but I'm more
70       interested in making sure you can write a subclass that does what you
71       need, and less in making Config-INI do what you want directly.
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THANKS

74       Thanks to Florian Ragwitz for improving the subclassability of Config-
75       INI's modules, and for helping me do some of my first merging with
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ORIGIN

79       Originaly derived from Config::Tiny, by Adam Kennedy.
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AUTHOR

82       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
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85       This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Ricardo Signes.
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87       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
88       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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