perl_config
Introduction
I am currently writing a few programs that require a simple configuration file to be parsed. I decided to release the bare-bones configuration file parser (under the terms of the GPL of course!) as it's quite a useful tool even in it's early form. This is still very much under-development and doesn't yet include full syntax checking, etc....
Sample Configuration File
perl_config.pl will parse configuration files of the following general form....
# This is a comment - obviously
section_one {
some_variable = some_value
another_variable = another_value
}
# another comment
a_free_floating_assignment = "Not in any section"
another_section {
yet_another_variable = 1234
}
Limitations
The configuration file parser contains next-to-nothing in terms of syntax checking at present. I will add this in a later release as I incorporate the parser into my projects. For example, no checking is made for empty assignments, duplicate variable names, duplicate section headers, etc....
Download
You can download the Perl source, a sample configuration file, and of course the README in the following tarball.
