Has anyone written an INI parser in tango?

[Janderson]

Rayne wrote:
> 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.

I know this has been solved but I'd like to point out that windows 
offers GetPrivateProfileString.  Its not portable and not that efficient 
(although that would only be a concern if your reading 10000's of entries).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724353(VS.85).aspx

-Koel