Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:54:23PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
>> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 19:46:59 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
>> > This option will enclose key names in quotes (") if they
>> > contain a subsection and then escape " and \. It will also
>> > escape line breaks in values. Together this should produce
>> > an easily parsable output.
>>
>> That will lead to either eval (which runs perl parser and probably won't win
>> anything) or regexps (which is not big win over parsing the .ini directly
>> with them) on the perl side. IMHO only thing that would actually be faster is
>> NUL-separated entries.
>
>> Either:
>> KEY <NUL> VALUE <NUL>
>>
>> or:
>> KEY <TAB> VALUE <NUL>
>
> Both subsection names and values can contain <TAB> characters, so the
> latter isn't possible.
But neither subsection names (even [section "subsection"] style) not key
names cannot contain newline <LF>. I.e.
KEY <LF> VALUE <NUL>
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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