parse_ini_file.sh

Load configuration file .envrc.ini and store values in associative arrays

Description

THIS SCRIPT SHOULD BE USED AS LIBRARY SCRIPT

Best use is to source this file to define parse_ini_file method.

Parse line by line a simple .ini file, for each section, create an associative array per section which store key and value of the .ini file.

parse_ini_file()

Parse a simple .ini file and stre values in associative arrays.

Parse line by line a .ini file, if a section tag is encountered, create an associative array from the name of the section and store each key, value pair in this associative array.

For instances:

[section_name]
# Comment
key_1 = foo
key_2 = bar

Will result on the creation of the bash associative array ${section_name} with two key,value pair accessible as shown below:

echo ${section_name[key_1]}
Will echo foo
echo ${section_name[key_2]}
Will echo bar

Globals

• DIRENV_INI_SEP

Arguments

parse_ini_section()

Parse a simple .ini file and stre values in associative arrays.

Parse line by line a .ini file, if a section tag is encountered, create an associative array from the name of the section and store each key, value pair in this associative array. Space in section name will be replaced by underscore _.

For instances:

[section name]
# Comment
key_1 = foo
key_2 = bar

Will result on the creation of the bash associative array ${section_name} with two key,value pair accessible as shown below:

echo ${section_name[key_1]}
# Will echo foo
echo ${section_name[key_2]}
# Will echo bar

Globals

• DIRENV_INI_SEP

Arguments

Arguments	Description
$0	string, path to the .ini config file to parse

parse_ini_value()

Parse line key, value provided as argument from an .ini file

Parse a single line provided as first argument from an .ini, i.e. of the following form:

# This is a comment
key=value
key =value
key= value
key = value

Others form are not supported ! Once the line is parse, if value start with cmd:, this means that value is obtain from a command provided, execute the command to have the value. store the pair key, value into the associative array corresponding to the section provided as second argument.

If there already exist an entry for the key in the associative array, the new value will be concatenate with the old value using ${DIRENV_INI_SEP} as separator to be able to easily split the string later in the corresponding module.

Globals

• DIRENV_INI_SEP

Arguments

Arguments	Description
$1	string, line to parse
$2	string, name of the module where key, value will be stored

parse_ini_line()

Determine if a line define a section or a pair key, value

Determine if line provided as argument define a section, then call method parse_ini_section, else if line determine a pair key, value, call method parse_ini_value.

Arguments

Arguments	Description
$1	string, line to parse
$2	string, name of the last section (i.e. module) parsed