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The environment descriptions (that can be read by ctpl_environ_add_from_stream() and friends) contains any number of symbol-value pairs that have the following syntax:
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<symbol> = <value>; |
where <symbol> is a
valid
symbol and <value> is a
valid value.
Apart the four required parts (symbol, equal sign, value, semicolon),
there can be any number of
blank
characters and
comments
before, between and after them.
The symbol part is composed of any alphanumeric characters and underscore, repeated any number of times.
There are 3 supported value types:
Numbers, as read by ctpl_input_stream_read_number().
Strings, as read by ctpl_input_stream_read_string_literal().
Arrays of any of these 3 types of values. Arrays start with an
opening square bracket ([) and end with a closing
square bracket (]). The values in the array are
separated by a comma (,).
There can be any number of values (but at least one), which may
be of any type, including arrays as well.
Blank characters are not interpreted and may appear anywhere nothing is expected, e.g. between the identifier and the equal sign. The blank characters are space, tab, vertical tab, newline and carriage return.
Comments are special segments that don't get interpreted. Such
segments start with a number sign (#) that is not part
of any other construct (such as a string literal), and ends at the
following end of line.
Comments can be useful to add extra information to explain an element, to separate different parts or to disable a part of the description without actually removing it.
Example 7. An environment description example
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# This is an example that shows some environment description syntax. # It does not show everything (there are more supported numeric constructs for # example), but it covers a pretty good part of it. foo = "string value"; # This is a comment bar = 42; # An important number! str = "a more complex\" string"; array = [1, 2, "hello", ["world", "dolly"]]; real_number = 2.12e-9; hex_number = 0xffe2; # 65506 |