Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Whitespace surrounding `name`, `=` and `value` is ignored. If > `value` is surrounding by double quotation marks (`"`), all > characters within the quoted string are retained verbatim, > including whitespace. Comments starting with either `#` or `;` and > extending to the end of line are discarded. A line that defines a > value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a `\`; > the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped. Nice, but I am not sure how this captures how whitespaces between value and comment are handled, e.g., in this line | name = value # comment$ humans know the space before '#' is removed because it is "whitespace surrounding value". But there is a bit of chicken and egg problem; before you realize '# comment' is a comment and strip it from the line, you do not know where value ends, so your reading of the above need to backtrack.
