Config::INI man page on Fedora

Man page or keyword search:  
man Server   31170 pages
apropos Keyword Search (all sections)
Output format
Fedora logo
[printable version]

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

NAME
       Config::INI - simple .ini-file format

VERSION
       version 0.018

SYNOPSIS
       Config-INI comes with code for reading .ini files:

	 my $config_hash = Config::INI::Reader->read_file('config.ini');

       ...and for writing ".ini" files:

	 Config::INI::Writer->write_file({ somekey => 'somevalue' }, 'config.ini');

       See Config::INI::Writer and Config::INI::Reader for more examples.

GRAMMAR
       This section describes the format parsed and produced by
       Config::INI::Reader and ::Writer.  It is not an exhaustive and
       rigorously tested formal grammar, it's just a description of this
       particular implementation of the not-quite-standardized "INI" format.

	 ini-file   = { <section> | <empty-line> }

	 empty-line = [ <space> ] <line-ending>

	 section	= <section-header> { <value-assignment> | <empty-line> }

	 section-header = [ <space> ] "[" <section-name> "]" [ <space> ] <line-ending>
	 section-name	= string

	 value-assignment = [ <space> ] <property-name> [ <space> ]
			    "="
			    [ <space> ] <value> [ <space> ]
			    <line-ending>
	 property-name	  = string-without-equals
	 value		  = string

	 comment     = <space> ";" [ <string> ]
	 line-ending = [ <comment> ] <EOL>

	 space = ( <TAB> | " " ) *
	 string-without-equals = string - "="
	 string = ? 1+ characters; not ";" or EOL; begins and ends with non-space ?

       Of special note is the fact that no escaping mechanism is defined,
       meaning that there is no way to include an EOL or semicolon (for
       example) in a value, property name, or section name.  If you need this,
       either subclass, wait for a subclass to be written for you, or find one
       of the many other INI-style parsers on the CPAN.

       The order of sections and value assignments within a section are not
       significant, except that given multiple assignments to one property
       name within a section, only the final one is used.  A section name may
       be used more than once; this will have the identical meaning as having
       all property assignments in all sections of that name in sequence.

DON'T FORGET
       The definitions above refer to the format used by the Reader and Writer
       classes bundled in the Config-INI distribution.	These classes are
       designed for easy subclassing, so it should be easy to replace their
       behavior with whatever behavior your want.

       Patches, feature requets, and bug reports are welcome -- but I'm more
       interested in making sure you can write a subclass that does what you
       need, and less in making Config-INI do what you want directly.

THANKS
       Thanks to Florian Ragwitz for improving the subclassability of Config-
       INI's modules, and for helping me do some of my first merging with
       git(7).

ORIGIN
       Originaly derived from Config::Tiny, by Adam Kennedy.

AUTHOR
       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Ricardo Signes.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.1			  2011-06-03			Config::INI(3)
[top]

List of man pages available for Fedora

Copyright (c) for man pages and the logo by the respective OS vendor.

For those who want to learn more, the polarhome community provides shell access and support.

[legal] [privacy] [GNU] [policy] [cookies] [netiquette] [sponsors] [FAQ]
Tweet
Polarhome, production since 1999.
Member of Polarhome portal.
Based on Fawad Halim's script.
....................................................................
Vote for polarhome
Free Shell Accounts :: the biggest list on the net