From 42b3d348e8794e9b0754034c7b958d2de62e414a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ted Trask <ttrask01@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:20:52 +0000
Subject: Added parse_configfile function to format.lua library.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/acf/core/trunk@1488 ab2d0c66-481e-0410-8bed-d214d4d58bed
---
 lib/format.lua | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/format.lua')

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)
 
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