Raku Fundamentals: A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies

© Moritz Lenz 2020

M. LenzRaku Fundamentals https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6109-5_9

9. Parsing INI Files Using Regexes and Grammars

Moritz Lenz¹ 

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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=value2

key3 = with spaces

; comment lines start with a semicolon, and are

; ignored by the parser

[section2]

more=stuff

Raku offers regexes for parsing and grammars for structuring and reusing regexes.

You could use the Config::INI² module (after installing with zef install Config::INI) to parse files ...