4.2. INI Format


Purpose

INI files are used to store simple configuration information for scripts.


Description

An INI file contains of a series of sections. Each section begins with a header enclosed in '[' and ']'. Comment lines begin with ';' or '#' as the first non-whitespace character. Blank lines before a section or at the end of a section are ignored.


Examples

A sample file is:

[Drivers]
Format  Library     Subroutine  Book
mif     sdf2mif.pl  MifFormat   MifBook
raw     sdf2raw.pl  RawFormat

[PostProcessing]
ps     = &SdfBatch("-pfile")
doc    = &SdfBatch("-sdoc -Sd")