[augeas-devel] inifile with semicolon in entries?

[John Newbigin]

Hi,

In ini files, the ; is a start comment. That could be the problem.

Have you altered to_comment_re/comment_re/comment_default?

I am not sure if there is any quoting which can be done to make the ; 
not a comment.

John.

On 08/01/2013 03:53 AM, Simon Beale wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to handle an inifile style config file that contains semicolons
> in a few of the entries, and failing because "Get did not match entire
> input" on them.
>
> Ironically one of the entries in the config file that I'm trying to
> change, is the entry that indicates that a semicolon is the delimiter to
> use for those other offending entries in the config file.
>
> Example entries that it's failing on are:
> client_skip_content=User-Agent: NSPlayer; User-Agent: RMA
> client_skip_content_sp=;
>
> I'm using augeas 0.9.0 from CentOS 6, with a lens based on the Puppet one,
> with a change to it of just:
>
> -let entry   = IniFile.indented_entry IniFile.entry_re sep comment
> +let entry_re    = ( /[A-Za-z;][A-Za-z0-9;\._-]*/ )
> +let entry   = IniFile.indented_entry entry_re sep comment
>
> In spite of the semicolon appearing in the new regexp, it's still throwing
> errors. I feel I might be overlooking obvious, but any pointers would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
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