https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp

Simple C++ ini parser.
https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp

configparser cpp header-only ini parser parsing python-configparser simple

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Simple C++ ini parser.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp
• Owner: mcmtroffaes
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-05-09T18:54:58.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-24T09:45:13.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T20:43:07.860Z (25 days ago)
• Topics: configparser, cpp, header-only, ini, parser, parsing, python-configparser, simple
• Language: C++
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• Size: 101 KB
• Stars: 273
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 53
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# IniPP

Simple header-only C++ ini parser and generator.

[![Build Status](https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp/actions/workflows/build.yml)

## Features

* Header-only.

* Both parsing and generating.

* Wide character support for native unicode on Windows.

* Default section support (similar to Python's ConfigParser).

* Interpolation support (i.e. variable substitution, similar to Python's ConfigParser).

* Trailing comments support.

* Simple design and implementation.

* Permissive MIT license.

## Example

```cpp

#include 

#include "inipp.h"

int main() {

	inipp::Ini ini;

	std::ifstream is("example.ini");

	ini.parse(is);

	std::cout << "raw ini file:" << std::endl;

	ini.generate(std::cout);

	ini.strip_trailing_comments();

	ini.default_section(ini.sections["DEFAULT"]);

	ini.interpolate();

	std::cout << "ini file after default section and interpolation:" << std::endl;

	ini.generate(std::cout);

	int compression_level = -1;

	inipp::get_value(ini.sections["bitbucket.org"], "CompressionLevel", compression_level);

	std::cout << "bitbucket.org compression level: " << compression_level << std::endl;

	return 0;

}

```

To include in a cmake project:

```

FetchContent_Declare(inipp GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/inipp.git)

FetchContent_MakeAvailable(inipp)

target_link_libraries(MyTarget PRIVATE inipp::inipp)

```

## Parsing algorithm

* The *section* is set to the empty string.

* Every *line* is read from the file and trimmed from whitespace.

    * If *line* is empty or starts with ``;`` then nothing happens.

    * Otherwise, if *line* starts with ``[`` then *section* is changed

      to the string between ``[`` and ``]``. If *line* does not end

      with ``]`` then an error is reported.

    * Otherwise, if *line* contains an ``=`` sign, then all characters

      before ``=`` are treated as *variable* and all characters

      following ``=`` are treated as *value*. Both are trimmed. If the

      variable was already assigned earlier, an error is

      reported. Otherwise, the corresponding assigment is added to the

      *section*.

    * Otherwise, the *line* is reported as an error.

## Default section algorithm

Insert every variable from the default section into every other section, without overwriting existing variables.

## Interpolation algorithm

1. Locally within each section, every occurrence "${variable}" is replaced by "${section:variable}".

2. Every occurrence of "${section:variable}" is replaced by its value.

3. The previous step is repeated until no more replacements are possible, or until the recursion depth (by default, 10) is reached.