Re: [PATCH] config: Add --quoted option to produce machine-parsable output

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:54:23PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 19:46:59 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

quoted

This option will enclose key names in quotes (") if they
contain a subsection and then escape " and \. It will also
escape line breaks in values. Together this should produce
an easily parsable output.

That will lead to either eval (which runs perl parser and probably won't win
anything) or regexps (which is not big win over parsing the .ini directly
with them) on the perl side. IMHO only thing that would actually be faster is
NUL-separated entries.

Either:
    KEY <NUL> VALUE <NUL>

or:
    KEY <TAB> VALUE <NUL>

Both subsection names and values can contain <TAB> characters, so the
latter isn't possible.

Gruesse,
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