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-rw-r--r--lib/format.lua12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/format.lua b/lib/format.lua
index f012c3b..e19899f 100644
--- a/lib/format.lua
+++ b/lib/format.lua
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ function parse_linesandwords ( input )
return lines
end
+-- returns a table with label value pairs
+
+function parse_configfile( input )
+ local config = {}
+ local lines = parse_linesandwords(input)
+
+ for i,linetable in ipairs(lines) do
+ config[linetable[1]] = table.concat(linetable, " ", 2) or ""
+ end
+ return config
+end
+
-- search and replace through a table
-- string is easy string.gsub(string, find, replace)