Re: [ILUG] config file parser lib ?

From: John Allen (john.allen at domain maotech.ie)
Date: Sun 11 Apr 1999 - 12:10:48 IST

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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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