NAME

Config::Setting::IniParser - parse windows .ini style files.

SYNOPSIS

 use Config::Setting::IniParser;

 my $ini = Config::Setting::IniParser->new(Filename => $inifile);
 foreach my $s ($ini->sections()) {
     print "[$s]\n";
     foreach my $k ($ini->keylist($s)) {
         print $k, "=", $ini->get($s, $k), "\n";
     }
     print "\n";
 }

DESCRIPTION

This class provides OO access to windows .ini style files. At present, it only provides read access, not writing.

METHODS

new ( ARGS )

Instantiate a new object. ARGS is a set of keyword / value pairs. Recognised options are:

CommentChar

Pass in a character that is used as a comment inside the data. This defaults to "#", but is also commonly ";".

parse_file ( FILENAME )

Parse FILENAME into the object.

parse_string ( STRING )

Parse STRING into the object.

sections ( )

Return a list of all sections that occurred in the data. They are returned in the order in which they originally occurred.

keylist ( SECTION )

Return a list of all keys in SECTION.

get ( SECTION, KEY )

Return the value of KEY in SECTION.

SEE ALSO

perl(1).

AUTHOR

Dominic Mitchell, <cpan (at) happygiraffe.net>.

BUGS

Does not cater for quoted keys and values.

It is a bit eager about comment stripping.