Has anyone written an INI parser in tango?

[Rayne]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Rayne wrote:
> > Just wondering if anyone had because it doesnt seen that the creators
> > of Tango have, and their crappy properties stuff doesnt appeal to me
> > in the least bit.
> 
> Here's a simple one I wrote a while back. A description of the file 
> format is here: http://openrj.sourceforge.net/
> 
> // Written in the D programming language
> // placed into Public Domain
> // Written by Walter Bright
> 
> module std.openrj;
> 
> import std.string;
> 
> alias char[][] [char[]] [] openrj_t;
> 
> class OpenrjException : Exception
> {
>      uint linnum;
> 
>      this(uint linnum, char[] msg)
>      {
> 	this.linnum = linnum;
> 	super(std.string.format("OpenrjException line %s: %s", linnum, msg));
>      }
> }
> 
> openrj_t parse(char[] db)
> {
>      openrj_t rj;
>      char[][] lines;
>      char[][] [char[]] record;
> 
>      lines = std.string.splitlines(db);
> 
>      for (uint linnum = 0; linnum < lines.length; linnum++)
>      {
> 	char[] line = lines[linnum];
> 
> 	// Splice lines ending with backslash
> 	while (line.length && line[length - 1] == '\\')
> 	{
> 	    if (++linnum == lines.length)
> 		throw new OpenrjException(linnum, "no line after \\ line");
> 	    line = line[0 .. length - 1] ~ lines[linnum];
> 	}
> 
> 	if (line[0 .. 2] == "%%")
> 	{
> 	    // Comment lines separate records
> 	    if (record)
> 		rj ~= record;
> 	    record = null;
> 	    line = null;
> 	    continue;
> 	}
> 
> 	int colon = std.string.find(line, ':');
> 	if (colon == -1)
> 	    throw new OpenrjException(linnum, "'key : value' expected");
> 
> 	char[] key = std.string.strip(line[0 .. colon]);
> 	char[] value = std.string.strip(line[colon + 1 .. length]);
> 
> 	char[][] fields = record[key];
> 	fields ~= value;
> 	record[key] = fields;
>      }
>      if (record)
> 	rj ~= record;
>      return rj;
> }

Thanks for the effort, however as it turns out I was being an idiot, I figured out how the properties work in Tango, its basicly an INI file. At least it works almost the same.