Documention for: parse-ini.r
Created by: sunanda
 on: 3-Oct-2003
Last updated by: sunanda on: 12-Nov-2003
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Windows INI file parser

 Sunanda
 October 2003

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===Overview

A Windows ini file has this structure:

 [section-name1]
 keyword1=somevalue
 keyword2=someothervalue
 [section-name2]
 keyword3=yetanothervalue

There may be many sections, and each will have zero or more keywords.

The two functions in this script are:

---parse-ini-file

Takes a whole ini file and converts it to a REBOL hash structure:

 ["section-name" ["keyword1" "somevalue" "keyword2" ...] ...]

---find-in-ini

Return a value from an ini file. Returns false if the section and keyword do not exist.

---Examples

 ini: parse-ini-file %/c/windows/win.ini

 print find-in-ini ini "ports" "com1:"
 print find-in-ini ini "intl" "iCountry"
 print find-in-ini ini "truetype" "FontSmoothing"
 print find-in-ini ini "xxx" "xxxx"