Added parse_configfile function to format.lua library.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/acf/core/trunk@1488 ab2d0c66-481e-0410-8bed-d214d4d58bed

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)