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# asciigoat's INI parser
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[![Go Reference][godoc-badge]][godoc]
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[![Go Report Card][goreport-badge]][goreport]
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`asciigoat.org/ini` is a simple Go library that very loosly parses
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[`INI`-style][wikipedia-dosini] documents allowing the implementation
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of stricter parsers of similar form.
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**asciigoat** is [MIT](https://opensource.org/license/mit/) licensed.
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[godoc]: https://pkg.go.dev/asciigoat.org/ini
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[godoc-badge]: https://pkg.go.dev/badge/asciigoat.org/ini.svg
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[goreport]: https://goreportcard.com/report/asciigoat.org/ini
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[goreport-badge]: https://goreportcard.com/badge/asciigoat.org/ini
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[godoc-lexer]: https://pkg.go.dev/asciigoat.org/core/lexer
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[godoc-parser-parser]: https://pkg.go.dev/asciigoat.org/ini/parser#Parser
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[godoc-basic-parser]: https://pkg.go.dev/asciigoat.org/ini/basic#Decode
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[wikipedia-dosini]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
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## Parser
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[`parser.Parser`][godoc-parser-parser] uses
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[`asciigoat`'s lexer][godoc-lexer] to process an `INI`-style document
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emiting tokens and errors via callbacks.
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## Basic Parser
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[`basic.Decode()`][godoc-basic-parser] provies a one-shot decoder
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that returns a structured document for you to post-process.
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To allow for correct handling of repetition of section and field names downstream,
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it uses arrays instead of maps, and makes almost no judgment
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about what section or field names are acceptable.
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## Other Implementations
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Other implementations exist, and they are mature and feature-rich, but they
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are highly opinionated about what's a valid file. Built around maps they don't
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allow repeating names and constraint what characters can be used.
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These are great when you can adapt, or already agree, to their conditions but
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that's not always the case when you are parsing configuration files from
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other applications and that's what [asciigoat.org/ini][godoc] attempts to solve.
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* [gcfg](https://pkg.go.dev/gopkg.in/gcfg.v1)
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* [unknwon's go-ini](https://github.com/go-ini/ini)
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* [wlevene's GoINI](https://github.com/wlevene/ini)
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## See also
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* [asciigoat.org/core](https://asciigoat.org/core)
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* [oss.jpi.io](https://oss.jpi.io)
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* [INI file][wikipedia-dosini] (_wikipedia_)
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* [TOML](https://www.kelche.co/blog/go/toml/)
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