Perl 6 Fundamentals : A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies

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Moritz Lenz, Perl 6 Fundamentals , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2899-9_9

9. Parsing INI Files Using Regexes and Grammars

Moritz Lenz¹ 

(1)Fürth, Bayern, Germany

You’ve probably seen .ini files before; they are quite common as configuration files on the Microsoft Windows platform, but are also found in many other places such as ODBC configuration files, Ansible’s inventory files,¹ and so on.

This is what they look like:

key1=value2[section1]              key2=value2key3 = with spaces; comment lines start with a semicolon, and are              ; ignored by the parser              [section2]              more=stuff

Perl 6 offers regexes for parsing, and grammars for structuring and reusing regexes.

You could use the Config::INI ² module (after installing with zef install Config::INI ...