To put the ini contents in uppercase is easy, just change the line:
IFS=$'\n' && ini=( $(<$1) )
by the line:
IFS=$'\n' && ini=( $(tr a-z A-Z <$1) )

This will be work ok to you. About the spaces in sections, there are no a easy way to do this AFAIK.

I hope to help you a bit.

Regards,
Andres

I tried the wonderful script and I’m even starting to understand what it does. I would like to modify the two areas where the text is converted to function and key names to do this: uppercase the names and in the case of the section name replace blank characters with underscore. I don’t know how to do this, especially since the script runs the regex for the whole file in one swing (IE not line by line).

Best regards

Feel free to add modifications

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/2060

cheers,

bld

what about packaging this in a .tar.gz and give the download link ?

the error described in first post occurs if a section does not contain values.
this can be solved by adding any command between the brackets which are evaluated by eval().

i think, there could be a better solution, but following works;
replace:
ni[${#ini[*]} + 1]=’}’ # add the last brace

with something like:
ini[${#ini[*]} + 1]=’echo -n; }’

local IFS instead of just IFS

the rest of the script seemed a bit magic to me at first, but anyway nice peace of work. (I would suggest not using a dot in name of function).

Even then, you can intermix formats easily enough- in other words you could do an ini override of make.conf for example.

Either way, ini is not the intended format for majority of users- it’s pretty much the intended format for if you need to do something fairly hanky (remote configuration, complex cache setups, etc).

function cfg.parser ()
{
_old_IFS=”$IFS” # save $IFS
IFS=$’\n’ && ini=( $(<$1) ) # convert to line-array
ini=( ${ini[*]//;*/} ) # remove comments `;’
ini=( ${ini[*]//\#*/} ) # remove comments `#’
ini=( ${ini[*]/\ =\ /=} ) # remove anything with a space around `=`
ini=( ${ini[*]/#[/\}$'\n'cfg.section.} ) # set section prefix
ini=( ${ini[*]/%]/ \(} ) # convert text2function (1)
ini=( ${ini[*]/=/=\( } ) # convert item to array
ini=( ${ini[*]/%/ \)} ) # close array parenthesis
ini=( ${ini[*]/%\( \)/\(\) \{} ) # convert text2function (2)
ini=( ${ini[*]/%\} \)/\}} ) # remove extra parenthesis
ini=( ${ini[*]/#\ */} ) # remove blank lines
ini=( ${ini[*]/#\ */} ) # remove blank lines with tabs
ini[0]=” # remove first element
ini[${#ini[*]} + 1]=’}’ # add the last brace
# printf “%s\n” ${ini[*]}
eval “$(echo “${ini[*]}”)” # eval the result
if [ -z "$_old_IFS" ] # restore old $IFS
then unset IFS
else IFS=”$_old_IFS”
fi
}