Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#4437 closed Feature Requests (wontfix)
Comment character in Configuration file parser incompatible with property_tree and Windows INI Files
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Vladimir Prus | |
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| Milestone: | Boost 1.44.0 | Component: | program_options |
| Version: | Boost 1.43.0 | Severity: | Problem |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Hello!
As documented the comment character used when parsing configuration files with parse_config_file is '#'.
This is incompatible with Boost.PropertyTree and with Windows ini Files. Both use ';' as the comment character.
See boost/property_tree/ini_parser.hpp and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724348%28VS.85%29.aspx
.
It would be nice to add an new option to parse_config_file which adds the commentcharacter to use. It can default to '#' which prevents existing code from breaking but allows to use windows inifiles by specifying ';'.
Best regards
Sönke Schau
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Regretfully, I don't have the time to implement more flexible config file parser. I also don't care much about compatibility with PropertyTree (especially given that it was added after ProgramOptions). So, while I would accept patches that make config file parsing more flexibile, this is not a feature request I'm gonna fix. Sorry!