Caolan McNamara wrote:
> getopt is to command line parsing as thingy is to config file
> parsing.
>> does anyone have a good candidate for thingy, previously and
> at the moment i use lex to help me parse config files, and thats
> a lot earier than doing it fully manually. But i feel
> that there has to be a more unified way. Theres so many
> different types of config files out there. I'd like that
> at least all my apps would be able to follow the same
> config file structure/syntax.
>
Have you considered XML. There are plenty of libraries out there,
there is even Perl XML library.
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