From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:58:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add --quoted option to produce machine-parsable output
Message-ID: <20070521205812.GO4085@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070521195423.GC5082@efreet.light.src>

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.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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