Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple


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Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple

by traveler (Parson)

on Nov 20, 2003 at 21:44 UTC ( #308716=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml )

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I have a Windows/DOS style INI file that I want to process. I decided to use Config::Simple because I have used it before and it is simple :-). The problem is that the file has blank lines e.g.

[foo]
Bar=1
Baz=
Boo=
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The module sets foo.Baz to Boo. I mailed the maintainer, but haven't heard anything. Does anyone know if there is something I can do to read such files?

Thanks, --traveler

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Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 20, 2003 at 21:57 UTC

;) If you have wxPerl, Wx::FileConfig will read it just fine ;)

update: your other options (i'm sure you knew) are Config::IniFiles and Config::IniHash

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Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple
by bschmer (Friar) on Nov 20, 2003 at 22:06 UTC

Are you using the latest version? I just got version 3.50 and it seems to do the correct thing. The only other suggestion after taking a *real* quick look at the code is make sure that there aren't any spaces at the end of the lines.

Yep, I tried blank lines, spaces at the end of the lines with no values and things are still humming along as I expect them to.

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Re: Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple

by traveler (Parson) on Nov 20, 2003 at 23:11 UTC

I got 4.55 on Monday (three days ago)...

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Re: Re: Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple

by bschmer (Friar) on Nov 21, 2003 at 12:10 UTC

Perhaps you could post your code? I have 4.55 and things work like I'd expect. Perhaps I'm doing things differently than you are.

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Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple
by TStanley (Canon) on Nov 21, 2003 at 13:36 UTC

I have just made a change to Config::Yacp so that it will handle this problem. The version number is 1.17. I will be posting it later this morning.

TStanley
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke

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Re: Blank lines in ini file and Config::Simple
by traveler (Parson) on Nov 21, 2003 at 14:15 UTC

At bschmer's request, here is a demo:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Config::Simple;

my $cfg = new Config::Simple( "testini.dat" );
die "Config file failure" if not defined $cfg;
%config = $cfg->vars();
my $bar = $cfg->param("FOO.Bar");
my $baz = $cfg->param("FOO.Baz");
print "<$bar>, <$baz>\n";
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And the data:

[FOO]
Bar=hello
Baz=
Boo=
[download]

$bar is printed correctly, but $baz shows up as ARRAY(..).

--traveler

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