INI File Parsing

Posted 17 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

We don't have one defined right now but that would be very simple to create. I can add it to our TODO list. But if you make one first, send it over and maybe we can include it as a sample with our product.

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Posted 17 years ago by Steven Liu

I happen to work with this type of format a lot. The trick is to look ahead to the next keyword. Here's a simple scope definition that may be a good starting point:


&lt;Scope&gt;
    &lt;RegexPatternGroup Type="StartScope" Token="SectionStartToken" Style="SectionWordStyle" PatternValue="\[SECTION\d*\]" LookAhead="{NonWordMacro}" CaseSensitivity="Insensitive" /&gt;
    &lt;RegexPatternGroup Type="EndScope" Token="SectionEndToken" Style="DefaultStyle" PatternValue="\n" LookAhead="[ \t\n]*\[SECTION\d*\]" CaseSensitivity="Insensitive" IsContentDivider="True" /&gt;
&lt;/Scope&gt;

Hope it helps.

Also tech support answered quite a few question I asked recently regarding scopes without closing keywords. Browse thru the postings and you may find some useful info.

Steven Liu

Posted 17 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

The next release now has an INI file definition.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 17 years ago by shareeef

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<font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Actipro Software Support:
The next release now has an INI file definition.<HR>

Thanks for the quick response...BTW when is the next release? Thanks :-)

Posted 17 years ago by shareeef

Thanks Steven for your help...

Posted 17 years ago by shareeef

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<font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Actipro Software Support:
The next release now has an INI file definition.<HR>

The Better BNF for INI file is as follows:
file := [ \t\n]*, section+
section := '[',identifier,']', ts,'\n', body
body := statement*
statement := (ts,';',comment,'\n')/equality/nullline
nullline := ts,'\n'comment := -'\n'*
equality := ts, identifier,ts,'=',ts,identified,ts,'\n'
identifier := [a-zA-Z], [a-zA-Z0-9_]*
identified := ('"',string,'"')/number/identifier
ts := [ \t]*
char := -[\134"]+
number := [0-9eE+.-]+
string := (char/escapedchar)*
escapedchar := '\134"' / '\134\134'

Posted 17 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Ours is pretty close to that. We plan on a release probably this week.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v21.1.0) was released 11 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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